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Overview of Scholars' Bank


The University of Oregon Libraries have created Scholars' Bank an open-access digital archive for the scholarly output of the University of Oregon community. Its mission is to preserve and make more widely available to the international scholarly community the intellectual output of the University of Oregon's faculty, staff, and students. It also serves as an archive of historical and other materials that broadly support the University's academic mission.

Submissions to the archive may be made directly by registered authors or can be facilitated by the UO Libraries at the author's or community's request.

If you are interested in starting a community or contributing to an existing community contact the Scholars' Bank Steering Committee at scholars@uoregon.edu.

The archive has the following characteristics:

  • Authors select which of their own scholarly works to deposit in the archive, as long as they meet the standards of the University of Oregon academic community. Authors are responsible for insuring that deposit of works to the archive does not violate copyright or any other relevant laws. Examples of the kinds of materials that may be deposited are:
    • articles or post-prints of published materials when permitted by the commercial publisher (please consult the FAQ for more information)
    • abstracts of copyrighted publications, with full citations to the publication
    • conference papers or presentations
    • course lectures or other course material that the author wants to preserve
    • pre-prints and working papers
    • research materials supporting scholarly publications
    • data sets
    • learning objects
    • works where the copyright has been transferred but the copyright holder permits the author to make the material freely available.
  • Authors retain copyright over deposited materials (unless they sign it away to a third party)
  • Materials are registered, providing a means of establishing the intellectual priority of the ideas, concepts, or research contained in them
  • Electronic files of any type or size will be accepted, although files exceeding 1 Gigabyte in size must be pre-approved by the Head of Metadata Services and Digital Projects
  • Deposited materials may be written in any language
  • Access to materials is via a Web interface and materials are searchable through Scholars' Bank or standard Web search engines, such as Google
  • Authors who submit their own works directly are able to choose the terms they want to describe their works
  • Indexing is mapped to international standards so that the materials in the archive can be routinely found by international search engines and harvesters, such as OAIster
  • Access to the full text of materials is open or restricted, depending on community preference
  • Accepted materials will be preserved and migrated to newer formats, as needed
  • No materials will be removed without the authors' knowledge

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Maintained by the Scholars' Bank Steering Committee: scholars@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 05/21/2007