The CSU-Pueblo Digital Repository is a database designed to store, index, distribute, and preserve the scholarship of faculty, researchers, staff, and students of the university in digital form
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Increased dissemination and impact of your research:
A digital repository provides high visibility and increased access to your research. The descriptive information about your deposited work will be indexed and crawled by Google and other search engines. -
Increased citation of your research:
Research suggests that open access to online articles may increase citation impact by 50-250%, depending on discipline, specialty, and year.
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Visibility:
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Persistence:
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Preservation:
The CSU-Pueblo Library is committed to preserving your digital content for long term access and use in the CSU-Pueblo Digital Repository.
Copyright control:
Because control of intellectual property has specific legal implications, every situation is unique. In some cases, you may retain control and ownership of your research and creative works. Even if the work has already been published, many publishers will allow you to deposit it in a digital repository.Maintain the scholarly record:
A digital repository provides the infrastructure to collect, preserve, and manage access to this important part of the University’s scholarly record, thus continuing the long term tradition of archives and libraries.
When we say that a digital repository provides "open access," we mean that researchers and any other interested parties may view the items included without having to pay to do so. Access is immediate, free, and unrestricted in most cases.
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Faculty
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Students
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Pre-prints and other works in progress, peer-reviewed articles, research papers, working papers, technical reports, conference papers
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Multimedia, videos, teaching materials, learning objects
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Data sets (scientific, demographic, GPS, etc.) and other ancillary research material
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Web-based presentations, exhibits, etc.
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Creative works.
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Theses and dissertations
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Projects and portfolios
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Research sponsored by a faculty member
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Performances and recitals
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A digital repository complements the traditional scholarly communications model by expanding the readership and availability of scholarly research and facilitating the self-archiving of your work. Concentrating and showcasing the work of faculty in a digital repository also makes it easier to demonstrate the scientific, social, and financial value of the university, which can result in tangible benefits, including funding.
In addition, a digital repository makes it possible to capture and share those materials that may not, for whatever reason, make it into a journal. This includes many great pieces of unpublished scholarship and artistic endeavor produced at CSU-Pueblo such as conference presentations, working papers, white papers, technical reports, and other examples of “gray” literature.
Depositing your work in a digital repository will not impact the peer review process. You could deposit the final, post- peer reviewed article in the repository in compliance with copyright law and publisher policies; or, you could choose to deposit your work in the repository and then submit it for peer review to an open access journal. In both cases, the important functions of peer review will be preserved.
- The Library will maintain your files and make them accessible from a central place.
- Control over access. A digital repository allows you to limit who can see various aspects of your work for a given time, if you need to do so.
- A digital repository is stable and permanent. Persistent URLs won’t break, move or change in the years ahead.
- As formats change and develop with the fluidity of technology, the Library will do the work of upgrading the formats of your materials.
For all content you deposit, the Libraries will:
- Maintain a persistent URL and the files/metadata (descriptive information) associated with it.
- Provide secure storage and backup of materials.
- Monitor format changes and migrate to succeeding format when necessary and possible.
Karen Pardue, Department Chair - Information Management Services, is working with the
other CSU-Pueblo Librarians to develop and implement CSU-Pueblo’s Digital Repository. Contact
Karen at (719) 549-2326 for more information.
Used with permission from CSU Libraries Digital Repository page
