Welcome to The Research Commons at WSU!
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What are my rights as an author? |
"a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution." Cliff Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
Connect to The Research Commons Mission: The establishment of “The Research Commons” allows the libraries and archives to continue our traditional role as the stewards of the university’s intellectual and cultural resources by capturing, preserving, promoting, and facilitating access to the output produced by our students, faculty, researchers and community partners. “The Research Commons” serves to two purposes: to highlight the intellectual and cultural output, thereby promoting our institution; and to support easy digital access, long-term storage, and preservation of these our institutional output through a single, searchable interface based on the international standards of open access. In addition to complementing the traditional methods of scholarly publishing, “The Research Commons” provides new avenues of disseminating scholarly materials, thereby not only benefiting the university but also the broader research community as well. “The Research Commons” (digitalcommons.wayne.edu) is intended to be a supplement to, not a replacement for, traditional publishing mechanisms such as refereed journals. “The Research Commons” will provide an opportunity to concentrate our research into a single, central database accessible to anyone with access to the World Wide Web and a web browser. The website will include a variety of file types (pre-prints, research reports, published articles, conference proceedings, research data, special lectures, theses, dissertations, performances, masters projects, field studies, clinical studies, etc.) and file formats (text, images, datasets, audio and video). Contributors, self-organized into communities, will retain copyright to their submissions and control access to their collections. The project team will provide the platform, advise on workflow and metadata requirements, and ensure long-term preservation and access to the materials. |
For more information contact Jeff Trzeciak via email at ae5308[at]wayne[dot]edu ©2005 Wayne State University |