SOAR (Scholarly Open Access Repository) at USI

• Open Educational Resources (OER) textbooks, Physical Geology and Introductory Geology Lab Manual, are now available in SOAR. 

• The spring 2024 Senior Engineering Projects are now available in SOAR.

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

• The Scholarly and Creative Works by the Faculty and Staff of the University of Southern Indiana: Completed During January 2023 - December 2023 is now available in SOAR.

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

• USI Graduate Student Dissertations are now available in SOAR.

• The 8th Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium at USI is 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 attributions. 
• Indexed 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.

• Create your Author Profile in SOAR. Check out the Author Profiles in SOAR. 

• Which version can I share in SOAR?

• How to upload your scholarship in SOAR.

• Publishing in a journal that has an APC (Article Processing Charge)?  USI Faculty and staff Open Access Funding research guide.

• Open Educational Resources (OER) that are Affordable Resources for USI student success. USI Faculty and staff stipend opportunities at USI include the Stipend Program, Requirements, and Stipend Categories.

What can we do for you?

• Describe and archive your materials so that users and search engines can find and use them.
• Provide training to help you describe and archive your materials.
• Contact Peter Whiting, Scholarly Communication Librarian, for guidance and information about SOAR.

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

• Scholarly articles.
• Working papers and reports.
• Podcast.
• Data.
• Conference proceedings and presentations.
• Open access monographs.
• Open educational resources (syllabi and course materials)
• Student scholarship including theses, dissertations, and projects.
• Videos and art work.
• Don't see it on this list then contact Peter Whiting Scholarly Communication Librarian.