IUScholarWorks User Guide

These pages are a guide to using the IUScholarWorks open access repository, a service provided by IU Libraries for the scholars of Indiana University.

What would you like to do?

• Learn more about IUScholarworks.
• Create an account.
• Review how to submit my work.
• Learn about my role as an collection editor.
• Learn more about collection administration.

IUScholarWorks is a service of IU Libraries' department of Scholarly Communication and is built on DSpace repository software.

An institutional repository is a digital archive for preserving the scholarly work of a research university. IUScholarWorks is Indiana University's institutional repository, maintained by the department of Scholarly Communication at IU Libraries. 

• The mission and benefits of IUScholarWorks.
• The types of works you'll find in IUScholarWorks.
• The policies of IUScholarWorks.

The pages of this LibGuide are focused on how to use IUScholarWorks. If you're interested in learning more about publishing Open Access, the following links may help.

For authors:

• What is Self-Archiving (and Why You Should) (Blog)
• Making Your Dissertation Open Access with IUScholarWorks (Blog)
• IUScholarWorks: Share and preserve your work in IU’s institutional repository (Blog)

For readers/users:

• How to Cite Works in an Institutional Repository (Blog)
• Reference Managers and Institutional Repositories (Blog) 

General Open Access information for IU scholars:

• Open Access (IU LibGuide)
• Open Access Publishing Support (IU LibGuide)
• Open Educational Resources (IU LibGuide)
• Open Access & Creative Commons Licenses (IU LibGuide)
• Open Scholarship for All: Resources for Students, Faculty, and Staff (Blog)
• Finding Open Access Materials (Blog)
• An Introduction to Open Access for Graduate Students (Blog)