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Reasons to Submit Your Work to Scholars' Bank


Advantages for faculty to submit to Scholars' Bank:

  • Scholars' Bank can collect in one place the results of faculty research, whether it be a conference presentation, working paper, peer-reviewed article, class lecture, book review, data set, or other type of work. For examples, click here.
  • Items submitted in Scholars' Bank can appear in more than one collection, such as a personal collection and a departmental collection. For an example of such an item, click here.
  • Scholars' Bank provides a unique - and stable - URL for each work that can be cited and linked to.
  • Every work is archived and preserved at no cost to faculty or to their home departments.
  • Submissions are indexed in Scholars' Bank and available on the Web immediately after approval by the collection's reviewers. (If a collection has no reviewer, the work becomes available without any delay.)
  • Text-based materials are indexed automatically so that the full text is searchable.
  • Google, Google Scholar and other similar services routinely harvest information from Scholars' Bank and add links to their indexes so that works submitted here may also be found through searches on the open Web. (Be aware that such indexing sometimes takes a few weeks.)
  • Submissions are immediately date-stamped, marking the content as having been created by the faculty member on the date of submission. (Earlier dates of availability or publication can also be added.)
  • Citations can be added to the records in Scholars' Bank to link to formal publications or to versions that have been previously made accessible through other venues.
  • Faculty collections can be established in such a way that they mirror the peer-review process, if desired.
  • Faculty can select their own keywords or terms to describe the subject of their work, if desired.
  • Faculty can handle the submissions themselves without any library involvement (once the library sets up a collection for them) or they can arrange to have the library do all the work for them, free of charge.

 

If you are interested in archiving your work in Scholars' Bank, please contact the Scholars Bank Steering Committee (scholars@uoregon.edu or 346-5607) to get started.

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Last Modified: 08/23/2006