"While in graduate school, I had three secret wishes. I wished that the authors of all the journal papers I ever came across explained their work through simple informal whiteboard videos where they explained to me, face to face, in simple words, what their work was all about. I wished that the senior members in every research group I ever worked with maintained a video repository of how to use various laboratory equipments and software so that new students like me could quickly get to speed. And I wished that someone created an open access database to collect and preserve the thousands of quality term papers our graduate students produced every semester !  I came across others who shared the same wish list, and together, we developed Researchusa.Org "

Researchusa is a massively cross linked content management system for academic and research organizations developed by a team of graduate students from various US universities including UMD, MIT, UPenn, VT and VU. The effort is managed by Dr. Amardip Ghosh from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Special thanks in supporting the development of the portal are due to the volunteering efforts of Siddharth Patel, Anand Saxena and Ravi Garg from University of Maryland, Ipshita Chakraborty from Vanderbilt University, Ranjeeta Pal from UPenn Annenberg School of Communication, Christina Button from Virginia Tech and Daanish Maqbool from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If you have a question about the service or would like to request a whitepaper or a brochure, please use our feedback page or write to us at support@researchusa.org

Researchusa invites you to supplement your journal papers and patents by discussing them on our new series of whiteboard videos. Our company will actively find audience in both industry and academia who might find your work useful and will broadcast your work to relevant individuals, groups and institutions, at no cost to you. This, along with our Cross Referencing Technology and Recommendation Toolbox will greatly increase the visibility of your research, improve citation and will allow the community to make the most out of your work. The portal has switched to smart templates, that make it extremely visible to search engines. Sometimes the author's video or whitepaper on Researchusa is showing up on search results even before his / her professional / personal webpage.

Upload and archive and cross reference all your term papers, white papers and reports so that not only can you use them later but others can use them too. At least 100,000 quality term papers, white papers, project reports and literature reviews, are composed by faculty and students each academic year which, because of lack of a searchable centralized database, often get lost in old hard drives and discarded computers.  If you have such documents in your computer, consider uploading them on researchusa. Documents add great visibility to your researchusa profile and makes you visible to your peers, colleagues, sponsors and recruiters. Uploads are free and PDF files of up to 350 MB can be currently uploaded. You can manage all your uploads through My Account

Recently published a journal paper or got a patent application approved ? Supplement your papers and patents by uploading discussion, demonstration or white board videos so that we can take your work to relevant organizations, institutions and individuals. Videos capture the 'Author's Perspective' about his / her work which is often difficult to convey over print media. Using our cross referencing technology and the Web 2.0 toolbar, your work can now be cross linked by other researchers working in related fields, sponsors can find you and your research group opening up opportunities for funded research, fellow researchers can  recommend your work to one another, people can express their approval and liking for your work and you can get valuable feedback from the community almost in real time.

Researchusa actively finds audience in both industry and academia who might find your work useful and broadcasts your work to relevant individuals, groups and institutions. This, along with our cross referencing technology and our recommendation toolbox increases the visibility of your research, improves citation and allows the community to make the most out of your work. For graduating students looking for employment and internship opportunities, our unique relationship with recruiting firms makes your profile available to more employers than you would otherwise expect. Because of increased visibility, Industrial sponsors can find you and your research group opening up opportunities for funded research.

You can make your videos or documents either public, private or anonymous. 1. Public uploads are freely accessible to anyone and give you and your work the greatest amount of visibility. No access control is used and viewers can not only view your upload but can also see who uploaded it. This allows viewers to also go to your profile page and view other works that relate to you. 2. Anonymous uploads are between public and private. Under certain circumstances, you might choose to make your uploads public and freely accessible but you may not want viewers to know who uploaded it. Use the 'Anonymous' option in such cases.3. Private uploads are very restrictive. These can be viewed only by users whom you have sent a link to the upload along with an access code.