ScholarSphere

Overview: 

ScholarSphere is Penn State’s institutional repository for research and scholarly work produced by the University community. Through ScholarSphere, Penn State researchers - faculty, students, and staff alike - are able to share their work on a worldwide scale and be assured of its long-term preservation and thus ongoing access.

As the institutional repository for Penn State, ScholarSphere provides the following:

• A self-deposit service for faculty, students, and staff to make their scholarship openly accessible
• Flexible access and visibility controls for the content you deposit
• Assistance in complying with data management planning and data sharing requirements
• A service for researchers to deposit their datasets and link to them from their published articles, as often required by journal publishers

The University Faculty Senate at Penn State passed an open access resolution in April 2015. Faculty are encouraged to share their research outputs via ScholarSphere - for articles, deposit the pre-published versions (original manuscripts), or the post-published versions (i.e., peer-reviewed and final version of the article before being sent to the journal for publication - will usually not be formatted to look like the published version).