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Submitting scholarly work to MOspace offers many benefits:
- Author retention of copyright
- Increased citation rates
- Google search optimization
- Full-text search and display
- Comprehensive usage data
- Perpetual access and preservation
- Processing by library staff
Additionally, for faculty members who are in the Promotion and Tenure process and creating ePortfolios, MOspace provides a way to reduce the file size of the portfolio. After items are stored on MOspace, they receive a permanent handle called a URI; these URIs (links) can then be inserted into the ePorfolio, instead of the entire item.