ScholarWorks is an online repository that shares over 30,000 articles, working papers, chapters, presentations, posters, theses, historical documents and other items submitted by members of the IU Indianapolis campus community. In an effort to highlight the important work and research done by staff members of IU Indianapolis, the Staff Council has partnered with the University Library Center for Digital Scholarship to accept submissions from staff who have been academically published. We want to share your hard work and research with our university community and beyond via our ScholarWorks staff collection, Staff Works.
Do you have an article, poster, or other scholarly project that has been published? Share it with us so we can share it with the community! Please submit your published works to Rachel Molina at ramolin@iu.edu.
Scholarworks FAQ
Anyone with internet access can view IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks (https://scholarworks.indianapolis.iu.edu) and its items, but if an item is “embargoed” they will not be able to download it until the embargo expires.
Since 2010, ScholarWorks has been visited about 24 million times. Readers have come from every country in the world.
Accessing scholarly works can be prohibitively expensive for scholars at less-affluent institutions and for community members. If you want people to easily find your work and not hit a paywall, upload it to IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks.
Sharing works in an open access, library-supported site like IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks (a practice a.k.a., “green OA”) increases citation rates by 33% (https://peerj.com/articles/4375/). In a local study, we found a 63% bump in citations: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/24076.
You can upload anything that is generally “scholarly” and for which you hold rights (or permission from the rights holder) to share. Yes, even works that you created prior to joining IU Indianapolis.
In the overwhelming majority of cases of journals (~ 80%), publishers permit authors to share at least one version of their article. Often publishers insist that authors use a pre-published draft (sometimes called a preprint, postprint, or accepted manuscript)--one that does not look like the PDF that you can download from their websites. Some publishers require embargoes on downloads for a year or two.
But, at IU Indianapolis authors have retained additional rights to their “scholarly articles” by adopting the IU Indianapolis Open Access Policy (https://openaccess.iupui.edu/). Under this policy authors have retained rights to their accepted manuscripts and have given the university permission to make these articles open access, with no embargoes, in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks.
If your work was published with a Creative Commons license, it can be shared on ScholarWorks in the final, published form. If present, the Creative Commons license may be displayed in the footer of the first page or in a section near the end of the article. See, for example, the footer of this article published by Oxford UP (https://hdl.handle.net/1805/42307).
If your article or book chapter was published without a Creative Commons license, use a draft copy that does not contain the publisher’s layout and design. These may be Word documents converted to PDF or, sometimes, works marked as “accepted manuscripts” by the NIH or by the publisher. Here are some examples on ScholarWorks:
No. You have non-exclusive, joint rights to co-created works under U.S. copyright law. But if you’re worried about what your coauthors will think, asking them might be courteous.
