About USF Scholarship Repository

The USF Scholarship Repository is an institutional repository service provided by the Gleeson Library | Geschke Center to digitally collect, preserve and provide worldwide electronic access to scholarly works and research output by the University of San Francisco community. Acceptable research outputs include journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, theses and dissertations. The repository also hosts a number of academic journals published by the University of San Francisco community. All members of the University of San Francisco community are invited to contribute their scholarship and research outcomes to the repository.

On May 2, 2018, the University of San Francisco Faculty Association Policy Board moved to pass an open access policy so that faculty can deposit their work in the institutional repository hosted by the USF Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. (USFFA Policy Board minutes, May 2, 2018) The open access policy aligns with the University’s social justice mission “to create, communicate and apply knowledge to a world shared by all people and held in trust for future generations” (from the USF Vision, Mission and Values Statement) and follows the model implemented by Harvard, MIT, and the University of California system in bringing equitable access to research to all.

For questions regarding the USF Scholarship Repository, please contact repository@usfca.edu.

Copyright and Licensing

The Scholarship Repository requests from its participants a non-exclusive worldwide license for electronic hosting and dissemination of the content through the Library, and does not claim copyrights over the works included herein. The full text of the submission agreement is available on our submission guides.

Retention and Removal

USF Scholarship Repository is intended to serve as a permanent repository and dissemination tool of the scholarly and creative work of University of San Francisco. Once deposited, the Work will remain in the repository unless the author(s) or the copyright holder(s) requests that it be removed. Works deposited in the repository may also be withdrawn due to breach of copyright or other intellectual property rights, or issues over privacy. A full bibliographic citation of the work will remain in the repository with a note regarding the removal. Requests for withdrawal should be sent to the Repository Administrator at repository@usfca.edu

Authors who are concerned about the sensitivity of their work, or who are submitting work for journal publication have the option of embargoing their work for up to 3 years, or restricting their work to users with a myUSF login (including campus guest accounts). Authors will always have the right to withdraw their work.

Open Access Policy