USI Student Scholarship in SOAR (Scholarly Open Access Repository)

The Spring 2024 Senior Engineering Projects are now available in SOAR.

USI Graduate Student Dissertations are now available in SOAR.

Rice Library promotes Open Education Resources (OER) or also known as Affordable Learning Textbooks that USI students can use the classroom. Two OER textbooks are available in SOAR (Scholarly Open Access Repository):

• Physical Geology
• Introductory Geology Lab Manual

Benefits of SOAR at USI include:

• Stability: Your work. once uploaded in SOAR, has a persistent URL.
• Connections: People interested in your research, such as other academic researchers, students, or publishers, can find out about your scholarship. SOAR is indexed in Google Scholar, Google, and other internet search engines.

SOAR (Scholarly Open Access Repository) is a digital collection of scholarship, research, and creative works produced by faculty, students, staff, and other members of the USI community. SOAR at USI is administered by Rice Library in cooperation with various departments and academic units of the University.

For questions about submitting your work in SOAR contact Peter Whiting, Scholarly Communication Librarian.

Rice Library has developed Word templates to enhance the accessibility and standardizations of dissertations and theses to aid in the production of a high-quality, highly accessible product for submission to SOAR at USI. These templates have been approved by Graduate Studies and the programs which require a dissertation or thesis. If you are unsure which citation style is appropriate for your thesis, please speak with your advisor.