Getting Started Publishing

Did you know that provides access to TouroScholar, which is our University Institutional Repository.

TouroScholar is a service of the Touro College and University System libraries. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the individual university departments and centers on campus. Touro Scholar includes materials from 2012 to the present.

Why contribute to TouroScholar:

• Increase your visibility to the scholarly community. Google and the TouroScholar work together to maximize visibility of archived materials
• Citation Impact:  Articles published in repositories are more visible, more accessible, and have greater impact, and are cited more frequently.
• Ensure the long term preservation and access of your scholarly work.
• Permanent URLs for easier dissemination
• Copyright remains with the author
• No maintenance by authors required
• See the impact of your work with usage statistics delivered to you automatically

Federal mandates and many publishers require researchers to share their data.  Placing it in a data repository ensures that it will be publicly accessible.