Reasons to Submit your Work

• The repository provides a forum for student work that would otherwise be hard to locate or would be completely unavailable to the general public.
• The repository provides a unique – and stable – URL for each work that can be cited and included in future job or graduate school applications.
• Every work is archived and preserved at no cost to students and faculty.
• Submissions are indexed and available on the Web immediately after approval by the collection’s reviewers.
• Availability on the Web is much faster than the existing process for making theses or other work available through the Libraries, UMI/ProQuest, or a departmental web site or database.
• Text-based materials are indexed automatically so that the full text is searchable.
• Google, Google Scholar and other similar services routinely harvest information from the repository so that works submitted here may also be found through searches on the open Web.
• Submissions are immediately date-stamped, marking the content as having been created by the student on the date of submission.
• Students may select their own keywords or terms to describe the subject of their work, if they want.