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Skip to main content Indiana University Main menu Home About About Copyright and Licensing People Policies Proxy Submissions Related Services Deposit Browse IUSW login Contact Raise the profile of your research. is a digital repository service provided by the IU Libraries for showcasing and preserving IU research. Get Started Browse By author By date By subject By title Why Use ? Impact Impact Increases citation impact Studies have shown that freely available publications are more frequently downloaded and cited. Items deposited in appear highly ranked in Google search results, thus raising your readership and ultimately, your citation profile. Preservation Preservation Guarantees permanence employs preservation standards to manage technology changes so that your scholarship remains accessible over time. Compliance Compliance Satisfies funder requirements Funding agencies increasingly require open access to research results. Depositing your work in can fulfill dissemination and data-sharing requirements of federal and other grants, including the NIH data-sharing requirements . Featured Collections What Users Are Saying Something is absolutely essential to the scientific and outreach mission of UITS and the Pervasive Technology Institute." [see more] Craig Stewart Associate Dean, Research Technologies Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute View My Research Blah The repository is a very attractive option with long-term stability for making freely available my post-publication works." V. Alan Kostelecky Distinguished Professor Theoretical Physics View My Research Blah is a great method of putting my work where it will be seen, promoting scholarly communication, and building a scholarly community." Teri Klassen Research Associate, Mathers Museum of World Cultures Ph.D., Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology View My Research Deposit What would you like to deposit? Thesis or dissertation (Bloomington only) Individual research files (i.e. journal article, data set, book chapter, etc.) Thematic collection (i.e. workshop series presentations, lab publications, entire conference proceedings, etc.) Thesis or dissertation Bloomington graduate students may submit their thesis or dissertation to in addition to submitting it to the University Graduate School. Simply complete the Theses & Dissertations Submission Form and an staff member will notify you as soon as your work is made available. Individual research files Follow the four-step process below to submit individual files to . Read our Copyright and Licensing page 1 Clear rights Register with 2 Create an account Contact your campus liaison 3 Request authorization Follow the Submission Guide 4 Submit your work Thematic collection Please fill out the New Collection Request Form . Once completed, an staff member will be in touch to discuss your needs. Read more about Deposit Policies Copyright and Use Policy Content Policy Embargo Policy Format and Preservation Policy Removal Policy Revisions Policy Copyright and Use Policy Ownership of copyright Repository materials are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by the copyright holder. In order to place your work(s) in and make them openly available on the web, you must agree to the limited, non-exclusive license, which: confirms that you own the copyright to the items grants Indiana University permission to distribute the items worldwide and to take the necessary steps to preserve them. Authors may also consider licensing their works with a Creative Commons License. Using this license allows authors to preserve those rights that are most important to them (e.g., proper attribution,) and at the same time explicitly grant to readers certain other rights chosen by the author to be used at the readers discretion (e.g., copy, distribute, display, or perform the work.) Use of materials By default, materials deposited in are Open Access, which means anyone on the web can access them. Single copies of full items may be reproduced for personal research or study purposes without prior permission or charge. Permission must be obtained from the rights holder for all other uses, unless a Creative Commons license is displayed on the item or the use is a Fair Use . For more information, please see our Copyright and Licensing page. Content Policy The content in represents the research, scholarship, and intellectual output of the Indiana University community. Therefore, only materials authored or published by the following IU affiliates are eligible for deposit: Any IU research unit, institute, center, department, or university partner IU faculty and staff IU dissertation and thesis writers IU students with authorization from a sponsoring department or faculty member The academic units decide what content to put into their respective communities. Types of content may include, but are not limited to: Submitted manuscripts (as sent to journals for peer-review) Accepted versions (author’s final peer-reviewed drafts) Published versions (publisher-created files) Supplementary files, including multimedia or datasets Gray literature (conference papers, working drafts, primary evidence) Dissertations and theses Negative results or work that will not be finished Embargo Policy Embargoes in are treated as a publicly available descriptive item record with restrictions on access to the file itself. Metadata/citation information will be visible for embargoed items. Since search engines will be able to find these citations that do not yet include the full-text content, any embargoed item in must contain contact information for the corresponding creator/principal investigator (NOT the depositor), so that end users who wish to gain access may request it. Embargoes may be set for any time period up to five (5) years from the date of deposit. Renewal of embargoes beyond five (5) years will not be possible; all work deposited will, by that time, become Open Access. was originally conceived of as an Open Access repository, and we encourage researchers to consider making their publications Open Access and their data Open Data. However, we acknowledge that in some cases researchers may need to restrict access to their work. There are many reasons why some might want to embargo their deposits, which include but are not strictly limited to: Plans to file a patent based on research and/or data Research and/or data is subject to review by sponsor or grantor prior to publication In some instances, submission for Open Access publishing should not be considered until the resolution of certain key issues, such as: Plans for future publication based on research and/or data Plans to publish research based on research and/or data and publisher has indicated that data release counts as "prior publication" Third-party content remains to be licensed properly Any research deposited in must be stripped of all personally-identifiable information, in accordance with patient privacy laws and IRB restrictions. Data sensitivity is not an acceptable reason for embargo. Format and Preservation Policy The system is designed to hold and deliver scholarly materials in digital form (text, data, image, audio, video, etc.), that will not change over time and that are adequately described with standard keywords and descriptors (i.e., do not have specialized metadata requirements). It is not equipped to support the archiving and/or accessibility of dynamic resources like open web sites, interactive applications, files with complex metadata requirements, authoring tools, or dynamic learning objects. Because the technological environment is changing rapidly, it may not be possible to preserve the usability of every file format that is deposited in the Repository. Certain file formats (openly-documented, non-proprietary, lossless) are more easily preserved than others. staff can provide guidance related to file formats. Removal Policy has been established as a permanent archive with the goal of providi...