Information for Students

Part of the mission of Cardinal Scholar is to provide a centralized venue where students at Ball State University may deposit their scholarly output (papers, articles, digital representations of their creative efforts). You may link to the materials deposited in Cardinal Scholar from a personal homepage that serves as your student portfolio.

Work deposited in Cardinal Scholar must not infringe upon or violate the rights of others. No Social Security numbers may be included in the work and all use of human subjects in support of the work must be cleared by the Ball State University Institutional Review Board. You must obtain all necessary rights to permit Ball State University to reproduce and distribute the work and any third-party owned content must be clearly identified and acknowledged within the work.

Please visit our page Getting Started to learn how to create an account and begin depositing materials.

To learn about how the system works in more detail, visit our Guidelines, Help, and FAQ pages.