What are the benefits to a scholar who includes his/her work in a digital repository?
• Increased dissemination and impact of your research: A digital repository provides high visibility and increased access to your research. The descriptive information about your deposited work will be indexed and crawled by Google and other search engines. • Increased citation of your research: Research suggests that open access to online articles may increase citation impact by 50-250%, depending on discipline, specialty, and year. • Visibility: Presentation and promotion of your individual and department’s research. • Persistence: A digital repository provides permanent URLs to your digital research. • Preservation: The Libraries is committed to preserving your digital content for long term access and use in the CSU Digital Repository. • Copyright control: Because control of intellectual property has specific legal implications, every situation is unique. In some cases, you may retain control and ownership of your research and creative works. Even if the work has already been publis
