DePaul Scholars: Get Started

DePaul Scholars is an online tool and searchable database of DePaul University faculty and staff. With DePaul Scholars, faculty and staff can organize and promote their scholarship and work, including:

• Publication output and metrics

• Research expertise

• Awarded grants and prizes

• Information about academic appointments

• Additional scholarly accomplishments and activities

This public portal allows scholars as well as journalists, donors, prospective students, and policymakers to find DePaul faculty members who are working at the forefront of new areas of scholarly inquiry.

DePaul Scholars relies on a wide variety of data sources to deliver its content, including:

• Scopus, Mendeley, PubMed, Ebsco and other publication data sources
• Additional internal data sources
• Manual data entry from users
• Grant and contract data from DePaul University's Office of Research Services (ORS)
• Content in Digital Commons@DePaul will be integrated in the future

Google Scholar was designed as a search tool to search for scholarly literature and other content throughout the internet. However, it does not have filters in place to only select peer-reviewed articles which may result in unreliable data. DePaul Scholars only pulls from databases with publications that have been peer-reviewed and may be a more accurate representation of a researcher’s work.

Google Scholar also does not offer a mechanism for sharing copies of all of your work (beyond the citation information). With DePaul Scholars, you have the control of and can share work that you own the copyright for, e.g. pre-prints, working papers, software or data related to a publication.