ScholarsArchive@OSU

Getting Started

Why Use ScholarsArchive@OSU?

There are many reasons to deposit your scholarly materials to ScholarsArchive@OSU.
Doing so:
  1. Increases the visibility and citation impact of your scholarship (see the "Effect of Open Access and Downloads ('Hits') on Citation Impact: A Bibliography of Studies,"
    http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html,for more information).
  2. Brings together all of your scholarship, your unit's scholarship and the institution's scholarship.
  3. Provides open access to your scholarship (see "Open Access Overview: Focusing on Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research Articles and Their Preprints," http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm, for a discussion of open access).
  4. Preserves your scholarship.
  5. Provides a persistent URL for your scholarship so that people can reliably access it in perpetuity.
To deposit your scholarly material yourself:
  1. Ask your research librarian?or Sue Kunda(sue.kunda@oregonstate.edu; 541-737-7262) to have a collection created for your unit and/or for yourself. For an example of a collection, see the University Libraries collection of Papers, Articles and Conference Proceedings.
  2. Connect to ScholarsArchive@OSU.
  3. Click on login?in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
  4. Use your ONID Username or ONID email address and your ONID Password to login.
  5. Follow the instructions on the screen, or print these instructions?out and follow them.
To have the library deposit your scholarly material for you:
  1. Ask your research librarian?or Sue Kunda (sue.kunda@oregonstate.edu; 541-737-7262) to have a collection created for your unit and/or for yourself. For an example of a collection, see University Libraries collection of Papers, Articles and Conference Proceedings.
  2. Send your scholarly materials as email attachments or on a CD to Sue Kunda at the Valley Library (sue.kunda@oregonstate.edu; 541-737-7262) or contact your research librarian? to discuss options for submitting your research.
  3. The library will find out whether the research can be legally deposited in ScholarsArchive@OSU, submit your research to ScholarsArchive@OSU, and notify you when it is available.
That's pretty much it.
  1. If you have any questions, contact your research librarian?or Sue Kunda (sue.kunda@oregonstate.edu; 541-737-7262)