CSUN ScholarWorks | Mission Statement & Repository Development Policies

Abstract

CSUN ScholarWorks Mission: To collect, organize, preserve and disseminate the research and creative works of CSUN faculty, students (both graduate and undergraduate) and administrators in an online, interoperable, and open-access environment. Primary objectives: - To gather and collect CSUN research and creative works, including journal articles and pre-prints, data sets, oral histories, educational learning objects, symposia, congresses, conferences and other university-related archives and documentation, into a centralized online repository; - To improve access to CSUN research and creative works via the tools and platforms that provide a permanent environment for open access; - To organize CSUN research and creative works so that individual and related works (including those with complex structures and multiple parts of files) can be easily identified through a variety of attributes (including basic metadata); - To preserve CSUN research and creative works through the appropriate archiving of content to ensure availability in the future; - To distribute CSUN research and creative works through open access platforms on the web and through indexing via major search engines (including Google, Yahoo!, et. al) and discovery tools (including CSU’s MERLOT, WorldCat, et. al).