PDXScholar: The Institutional Repository of Portland State University
The mission of the Digital Initiatives Unit at the Portland State University (PSU) Library is to collect, preserve, and distribute PSU-affiliated research, scholarship, and creative works.The Digital Initiatives Unit is dedicated to open access and making PSU-authored works freely available and easily discoverable to all through PDXScholar, PSU’s open-access institutional repository.
PDXScholar includes articles, presentations, videos, post-prints, and other works created by PSU faculty, staff, and students. PDXScholar makes PSU-affiliated scholarly research and creative works easily discoverable and available to anyone, anywhere in the world. The mission of PDXScholar is to support scholarship, promote research and cross-disciplinary collaboration, provide access to digital instructional materials created by the PSU community, and record the history of the University.
Benefits of PDXScholar
- Increases citation impact and visibility
- Easy to archive and share work with colleagues
- Amazon S3 cloud storage for permanent preservation
- Global audience, higher Google ranking, detailed readership reports
- Unlimited file types: streaming media, images, data, and more
- Persistent URLs for every item; Digital Object Identifiers for many items
- Meets data management requirements for dissemination
- Join over 500 other colleges and universities in network, a shared repository: Browse the Digital Commons Network
For more information about PDXScholar, please visit the About PDXScholar page.