SOAR (Scholarly Open Access Repository) at USI

• The 2024 Scholarly and Creative Works By The Faculty and Staff of the University of Southern Indiana is now available in SOAR.

• Experimental Design and Techinical Writing for Engineers, by Dr. Susan Ely, Assistant Professor of Engineering, is now available in SOAR. This testbook is a OER (Open Educational Resources) creation by Dr. Elly.

• The Spring 2025 Senior Engineering Projects are now available in SOAR.

• USI Faculty Scholarship including articles, posters & presentations, and datasets are now available in SOAR.

• The 9th Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium is now available in SOAR.

• Open Educational Resources (OER) textbooks, Physical Geology and Introductory Geology Lab Manual, adapted by Carrie Wright from original text by Steven Earl, are now available in SOAR. 

• Indiana English, the journal publication of the Indiana College English Association, is now available in SOAR.

• USI Graduate Student Dissertations are now available in SOAR.

SOAR (Scholarly Open Access Repository) is a digital repository and publishing platform that provides open access to scholarly works created by USI faculty, students, and staff. Rice library is committed to disseminating USI research and scholarship as widely and open access as possible in SOAR.

Why contribute your scholarship to SOAR? 

• Wider distribution of your research and scholarship throughout the world.
• More citations and attribution.becasue it is findable in Google Scholar, Google, and other search engines.
• Searchable in the USI Rice library online catalog
• Showcases the scholarship of USI faculty, staff, and students. "Elevate Visibility and Reputation" of USI -- USI Strategic Plan, 2021-2025.
• Digital preservation of the scholarship with a unique URL.
• You can choose a Creative Commons License for your work.

• You can create a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for your work if it does not already have one.

What can we do for you?

• Describe and archive your materials so that users and search engines can find and use them.

Types of content that can be included in SOAR (to list a few):

• Scholarly articles.
• Podcast.
• Datasets
• Conference proceedings and presentations.
• Student scholarship including theses, dissertations, and projects.
• Don't see it on this list then contact Peter Whiting Scholarly Communication Librarian, pwhiting@usi.edu