DigitalGeorgetown Institutional Repository (IR) is a service of the Georgetown Library under the Digital Scholarship Program to provide GU faculty, researchers and their supporting communities, and students a stable platform for their digital research and teaching output and to maximize exposure of their content. This open access Institutional Repository preserves and makes available scholarly research by Georgetown's faculty, students, institutes, centers, journals, and organizations. The IR includes conference papers, images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, theses and dissertations, working papers, research datasets and more. By exposing research at Georgetown University through Google Scholar and other search engines, it raises the profile of the University, as well as the individual researcher.