Research and Scholarship

Touro Scholar is the institutional repository of the Touro College & University System. It collects and preserves the scholarly works of affiliated authors, promotes open access to these materials, and offers robust usage statistics including altmetrics. All content is fully discoverable with search engines such as Google Search, and is indexed via Google Scholar. 

Contact Timothy Valente, or email touro.scholar@touro.edu, to learn more about contributing to Touro Scholar, and review the About Page and FAQ sections of the website. Click the button below to submit your scholarly works.

Submit Your Works for Deposit

There are a few commonly referred to versions of a research article. It's important to understand which one you can upload. Permissions will depend on any author agreements you may have signed with a publisher, or that publisher's policy on self-archiving. Our staff will always check that a work is legally allowed to be posted.

• Pre-print (or preprint)
  • Version submitted to journal, pre-refereeing
  • Also called the "submitted manuscript" or "submitted version"
  • Often uploaded to disciplinary repositories, or preprint servers like arxiv.org or SSRN for example
• Post-print (or postprint)
  • Author’s final version, post-refereeing, without any publisher added formatting/typesetting 
  • Also called the "accepted manuscript", "final accepted version" or "Author Accepted Manuscript"
• Final version
  • Version as it appears in the publication
  • Also called the "version of record,” the "publisher's version," or the "Publisher's PDF"

If you've been posting your work on ResearchGate or Academia.edu, you may wonder why it would be worth it to also put your work in Touro Scholar. Here are some of the reasons: