Digital Commons @COD is an institutional repository used to collect, preserve, and showcase scholarly, educational, and creative works created by the COD community including faculty, staff, and students.
Digital Commons has been used to archive over 1000 digital items that have been downloaded nearly 600,000 times. Items in the collection include research articles, book chapters, conference presentations, classroom projects, classroom video, promotional videos, audio commentary, images and mixed media artwork.
Digital Commons facilitates global discovery of and access to COD's intellectual output by optimizing discovery of items through web search results in search engines such as Google. When a work is added to Digital Commons, it is ranked highly in relevant search engine results, which gives COD a higher profile in the global academic world. As well as optimizing works for discovery in search engines, Digital Commons provides a centralized and easily browsable website that showcases, in a single location, the quality and quantity of the College’s intellectual and creative output. In essence, Digital Commons brings the College’s intellectual and creative works out into the open and allows the world and the local community to discover the amazing work being done at COD
A video introduction to Digital Commons @COD
Faculty Information
Learn more about how to submit work to Digital Commons, author rights, publication addenda, publisher copyright policies and copyright on our Digital Commons Faculty Information page.
Examples of Creative Works
The following is a list of links to examples of creative works by members of the COD community.
Research articles
Conference presentations
Book chapters
Audio commentary
Promotional videos
Honor student research
Images
E-books
College publications (Prairie Light Review, Essai)
Background Resources
A list of select resources on Institutional Repositories.
Institutional Repository Bibliography - The Institutional Repository Bibliography (IRB) presents selected English-language articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical.
Great Reach for your Research: Expanding Readership Through Digital Repositories
Brief paper that discusses the benefits of making your scholarship available through an institutional repository.
Columbia University Librarian James Neal discusses the multifaceted role online repositories play in the scholarly communication system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ang4XnG3n6Q