This page provides information for making published works accessible to an academic audience and the general public. Links to resources and databases for archiving published materials are provided.
SPIRAL serves as an online archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of Lynn University. SPIRAL is used for collecting and posting faculty and staff publications and presentations, student theses, portfolios, and dissertations, as well as video or audio files, archival materials, photographs, yearbooks, student newspapers, and much more.
SPIRAL is maintained by the Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Library Staff.
ResearchGate is social media for scholars. You can create an account to share your research, follow scholars in the same discipline, and publicize your research and scholarship from posters to papers.
iPulse is the primary Lynn University news publication and publishes timely, diverse, and relevant articles to the Lynn community and beyond. As of August 2021, iPulse collaborated with Apple News to publish relevant content and information on Apple News. Being on Apple News is a significant accomplishment. It offers students and faculty alike exposure and an expanded audience. It is open to the Lynn community and an excellent way to stay connected and engaged. With more than 100,000 readers, faculty publicizing their research on Apple News will expand their audience to new international readership due to the algorithms. If interested, please submit articles to ipulse@lynn.edu.
#WeAreLynn
If you share your research and scholarship on any social media sites, use the hashtag #WeAreLynn. Marketing uses this hashtag to source information and happenings from the Lynn community, and they may pick up your scholarship for a spotlight if they find it using this hashtag.
Google Scholar is a free product from google that will aggregate all of your published research and scholarship into one incredibly powerful search engine. Setting up a google scholar profile is a means of connecting all of your papers and publications through a link system. Anyone who finds a product published by you on google scholar can click your name to access all articles or other scholarly products written by you.
ORCID is a way to create a DOI for scholars. Setting up an ORCID will give you a code that when accessed brings readers to everything you’ve published that connected to your ORCID. Many journals will even link to your ORCID through your name in the author’s list of your paper, making it easy for readers to find other scholarly products created by you.
