BearWorks is a record of publication, research and scholarship at Missouri State University. As the Institutional Repository (IR) for MSU, BearWorks collects and preserves access to the scholarly work of the University’s faculty, students and staff.

The papers and theses available through BearWorks continue to be heavily downloaded and used. The current top ten titles are:

The thesis on Guerrilla Warfare in the Philippines has been downloaded 5,273 times in 26 months. The thesis Groups Satisfying the Converse to Lagrange’s Theorem has been downloaded over 6,000 times, and the thesis Iran as a Strategic Threat to the U.S.  in the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies has been downloaded over 9,300 times. 

Curated by the Missouri State University Libraries, BearWorks is jointly funded by the Office of the Provost, the Graduate College, and the MSU Libraries.