About the LSU Research Collective

The LSU Research Collective serves as the primary discovery portal for the Louisiana State University System's vast intellectual output. By bringing together and uniting all system-wide institutional repositories, this centralized platform provides users with seamless, cross-searchable access to all LSU Digital Commons-based repositories. The LSU Research Collective streamlines the discovery of open-access research, historical archives, and academic scholarship, showcasing the comprehensive impact of the LSU System to the world.

Key Features and Scope of the LSU Research Collective:

  • System-Wide Discovery:

     Search seamlessly across all system campuses, from agriculture and medicine to law and the humanities.

  • Diverse Scholarship:

     Access open-access articles, theses and dissertations, conference proceedings, and academic journals.

  • Disseminating LSU Research Globally:

     Advanced tracking structures ensure repository content is highly visible across major search engines and international databases.

Links to Digital Commons-based LSU system institutional repositories can be found below. Links to the repositories for LSU Shreveport and LSU Health Shreveport can be found under 'Additional Schools' near the bottom of the left navigation menu.

Any questions or concerns regarding the LSU Research Collective should be addressed to Trent Dunkin, LSU Libraries Institutional Repository Librarian, at tdunkin@lsu.edu.