It’s been an exciting semester when it comes to ScholarsCommons, FGCU’s institutional repository (IR). After only a few short years, ScholarsCommons now connects users to over 9,000 research outputs created by the FGCU community with many more on the way!
How does ScholarsCommons benefit you, you might be asking. One of the major benefits of making your research more accessible is that the more people that see it, the greater the chances are of increasing your citations! This becomes an even greater possibility if your work is open access, which means that it can be read by users across the globe. Over the last few years, there has been compelling research showing that there’s a direct correlation between greater citation counts and open access (Huang, et al., 2024). If publishing open access is not an option available to you, there may be a solution in the form of green open access, a form of open access wherein most major journals, usually after a stipulated period of time, permit you to share a version of your submitted work in an institutional repository, just like ScholarsCommons!
If you would like any assistance with the determining how to turn any past or future scholarship into green open access, all you have to do is reach out to Research Systems & Applications Librarian Kaleena Rivera at krivera @ fgcu.edu. For more information on ScholarsCommons, including how to interact with your pre-made researcher profile, check out the user guide here!
References
Huang, CK., Neylon, C., Montgomery, L. et al. Open access research outputs receive more diverse citations. Scientometrics 129, 825–845 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04894-0
