Why should I make available my research through the repository?
Answer
There are many reasons to consider the Rice Research Repository, including:
- Increase the visibility of your research
- Get higher rankings in Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines
- Scholarly works deposited in open access repositories have greater visibility and a larger impact than works published in traditional venues, according to several studies
- Share your work with researchers around the world, including those without access to expensive journals
- Improve recruiting by providing easy access to a department's or research group's intellectual output
- Disseminate materials not published in traditional venues, such as conference presentations, technical reports, and white papers
- Provide long-term access to your work
- Let the library manage your research works for the long-term. The repository is secure, professionally managed, organized, and regularly backed-up
- Links to works in the repository will not break
- Works in the repository will be migrated to newer file formats as necessary over time to keep the files readily accessible. This kind of maintenance is very difficult and time consuming to keep up with as an individual.