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. Collocates and catalogs 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 you and your users can reliably access it in perpetuity.
  6. Ensures availability of scholarship in Google, Google Scholar, library search engines (1Search), and, for natural resources related materials, Oregon Explorer.

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.

To have the library deposit your scholarly material for you:

  1. Ask Sue Kunda (sue.kunda@oregonstate.edu; 541-737-7262) to have a collection created for your unit. For an example of a collection, see University Libraries collection of Papers, Articles and Conference Proceedings.

That's pretty much it

If you have any questions, contact Sue Kunda (sue.kunda@oregonstate.edu; 541-737-7262).

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