Benefits of depositing your work to Sycamore Scholars:
Centralization: find the ISU intellectual output from one Web location
Sharing: disseminatee research and scholarship within and outside of the ISU community
Open access: provides free, open and full-text access
Increase the visibility and citation rates as Sycamore Scholars is indexed in Google, Google Scholar and other search engines and aggregators
Preservation: items are assigned unique URLs and preserved through an ISU digital preservation initiative
Contact:
Natalie Bulick, Natalie.Bulick@indstate.edu, 812-237-2611
What to deposit:
Any scholarly, creative, educational and administrative work from ISU units or members:
Accepted materials:
Student research and creative projects
Theses and Dissertations
Educational materials
Journal papers (pre-prints or post-prints)
Book Chapters
Conference papers
Papers in progress
Technical reports
Committee reports
Research data
Learning objects, etc.
Accepted formats:
Text, PDF, images, audio, video, multimedia, dataset, specialized formats, HTML web pages and websites, and much more
Sycamore Scholars is an ISU institutional respository that captures, centralizes and preserves the scholarly and creative works of the ISU community and make them open access over the Web with full text information.
At Sycamore Scholars, you will find:
Sycamore Scholars is an ongoing digital project of Cunningham Memorial Library. The following are services Sycamore Scholars can offer to the ISU community:
An institutional respository is a digital archive of the intellectual assets created by various institution members such as facutly, staff, students and researchers.
An institutional respository is also a set of services offered to institution members for organizing, managing, distributing and preserving the digital archive.