Scholars' Bank
Purpose/Scope: Scholars' Bank is the open access repository for the intellectual work of faculty, students and staff at the University of Oregon and partner institution collections. Open access journals, data, student projects, theses, dissertations, pre and post-print articles, instructional resources and university archival material are all candidates for deposit.
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Scholars' Bank is the open access repository for the intellectual work of faculty, students, and staff at the University of Oregon. It also houses materials from certain partner institution collections. Open access journals, student projects, theses, dissertations, pre- and post-print articles, instructional resources, and university archival material are all candidates for deposit.
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Scholarly communication is considered by many to be in a state of crisis. Rising journal prices, the increasing difficulty that scholars in some disciplines face in getting articles published, and growing lag times between article submission, acceptance, and publication are causing many to look around for other options.
Scholarly Communication
Authors who submit their research to Scholars' Bank retain their copyright unless they explicitly give it away to a third party. The University of Oregon Libraries does not seek nor claim copyright on work submitted to Scholars' Bank. The Libraries ask authors to agree to a non-exclusive distribution license.
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Scholars' Bank is a digital archive for the scholarly output of the University of Oregon community. Its mission is to preserve and disseminate the intellectual output of the University of Oregon's faculty, staff, and students.
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Brand Activism: Working Toward Progressive Representations of Social Movements in Advertising
(University of Oregon, 2018-06)Brands and advertising agencies have always used the cultural energy of social movements to connect to new audiences and promote their products. Academics have written a large body of critique about the intersection of ... -
The Ethics of Developing New Treatments: A Case tudy of the West African Ebola Outbreak and the Use of Randomized Control Trials
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-29)The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic was the most devastating Ebola outbreak in history which killed over 10,000 people. During the outbreak, the WHO led efforts to design the best method to test the potential treatments quickly. ... -
Challenges to Democratic Inclusion and Contestation of Space: Contemporary Student Activists in Transforming South Africa
(University of Oregon, 2018)Twenty-four years into democracy, in a time marked by stark inequality and rising levels of political disillusionment, student activists are key players in the pursuit of a more just, more equitable, and more democratic ... -
Using Deep Learning for FACT Source Detection
(University of Oregon, 2018-06)Cosmic rays bombard the Earth constantly, causing air showers that contain information about the original particle and potentially about that particle's source. Determining if an air shower is from a gamma-ray or a hadron ... -
Plastic Debris in Deep-Sea Canyon, Estuarine, and Shoreline Sediments
(University of Oregon, 2019-05)Recent calculations estimate there are currently 5.25 trillion plastic particles afloat in the ocean. Many of these are characterized as microplastics <5mm in diameter. Studies from the past decade have shown that no ...