Digital Commons™ Overview: The Digital Commons institutional showcase is the most widely utilized hosted ―repository‖ in the world. Built on the Software as a Service (SaaS) technology and service methodology, Digital Commons is a set of services designed to help you collect, organize and showcase the intellectual output of your institution. The showcase will help ensure a wider readership of your institution’s output and research and also provide readership statistics for each object uploaded to the showcase. Digital Commons is also more than just a ―repository‖ or ―IR‖. With applications that enable individual control over a personal publication space and robust publishing services, Digital Commons provides scholarly communication and publishing services that are meaningful to faculty and administrators on campus. The relevance of these services helps to achieve active use of the system and thus successful projects across your entire institution!!

Digital Commons Components: Digital Commons--the "institutional showcase"; collects, organizes, and disseminates the intellectual output of the institution. Creating institutional memory while giving back to the community is just two of the benefits our customers receive. Includes easy to use web-based submission forms, tools for harvesting content and even bepress staff that are charged with helping to make the showcase a success over the long term. List of implemented customers: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/institutions.html The Digital Commons showcase is built on top of:

Edikit—bepress’ powerful, commercial-grade publishing solution that enables the management of the editorial/peer review process for structured series of content, e.g. the creation of e-journals, ETD’s, conference proceedings, etc…. See a list of ejournals that are being created, managed, and published to the web by our customers and Digital Commons: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/journals.html There are many great journals here, both peer reviewed and not peer reviewed. The editors of each journal have full control over the policies, procedures, and content that help form their individual projects.

Selected Works (optional)--individually managed faculty publication web pages; enables individuals to showcase and disseminate their content in a variety of ways. Selected Works FAQ: http://works.bepress.com/features.html, Selected Works pages can also be integrated into the Digital Commons (see above) environment, at contextually relevant places. Examples: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/sw_gallery.html This suite of applications is delivered as a single, integrated solution, and is fully-hosted by bepress. There are no servers to install/maintain which also means that you are free to focus on the content and faculty outreach/services, and not fast-changing technology.

Digital Commons is the world’s most widely utilized hosted application of its kind.

Digital Commons Customer Examples This is a nice sampling of some of the uses of Digital Commons at our customer sites, there are many other fantastic examples in use today: Homepage flexibility: Images and/or slideshow on Digital Commons homepage (http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/,

http://opus.ipfw.edu/, http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/, http://scholarship.claremont.edu/, http://epublications.marquette.edu/, http://digitalcommons.providence.edu/)

Theses and Dissertations: Dissertations: Core collection: http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/, http://ecommons.txstate.edu/dissertations/, http://repository.upenn.edu/etd.html, http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradstudies/, including embargoes (http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/134/) Masters Theses (http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/, ) Undergraduate Honors, Student research (http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/biology_honors/;

http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/student_works.html, http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etds/, http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/student_research/)

Journal publishing: Faculty peer-review journal (http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/, http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/peer_review_list.html) Journals of undergraduate Research, many examples current and planned (http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/respublica/, and http://repository.upenn.edu/curej/) All journals being published within Digital Commons sites: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/journals.html Monograph/book publishing: Books (Pacific University books gallery: http://commons.pacificu.edu/mono/; Utah State University: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usufaculty_monographs/; University of Western Ontario: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/ebooks/)

University Press: University Press content: (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress/; http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/thepress/, http://fordham.bepress.com/ebooks/; http://scholarworks.umass.edu/umpress/)

Conference/event publishing:

Conference proceedings (http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/, http://commons.pacificu.edu/sustainableschol/, http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/irday/, http://digitalcommons.library.unlv.edu/peer_review_list.html, http://ir.uiowa.edu/conferences/)

Audio/video content: Video uploaded to Digital Commons (http://jdc.jefferson.edu/teachingtools/) Presentation of streamed video (http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/conf_coll_symp_symposia/48/)

Image Galleries: Image Gallery (http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/photocontest/, http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/mus_img/, http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/scamaps/) Art gallery: (http://commons.pacificu.edu/todayg1/)

Campus events: Campus Guest Speaker Series (http://epublications.marquette.edu/difference/) Commencement Addresses (http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_grad/)

Special Collections: Oral History projects (http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/Macoralhistory/, http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oralhistory/) Display PDF on the abstract page: (http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/bryant_goes_to_war/)

Other Collections: Center for University Excellence (http://commons.pacificu.edu/pucue/) Student Newspapers, with PDF preview (http://digitalcommons.providence.edu/cowl/) Student Affairs (http://repository.ucop.edu/communities.html) Grant Reports: (http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/gdo/) (could also upload and review drafts of future proposals) Open Courseware (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ocw/) Community engagement: (http://scholarworks.umass.edu/engagement/)

Recent adopters of Digital Commons: New adopters in 2010: Universities and Colleges: Bard College Bates College Bowdoin College Buffalo State College – SUNY Claremont Colleges Clark University CSU – San Jose State University Eastern Kentucky University George Washington University Hope College Illinois Math and Science Academy Iowa State University La Salle University Linfield College Loyola Marymount University Parkland Community College (Champaign, IL.) Pomona College Saint Catherine University Seton Hall University Singapore Management University University of Kentucky University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Lowell University of Miami University of Nebraska, Omaha University of New Orleans University of North Florida Valparaiso University Western Michigan University Western Oregon University Winston-Salem State University Consortia: CARLI (Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois) Professional Schools: Fordham University School of Law Golden Gate University School of Law Indiana University Maurer School of Law Marquette University Law School Northwestern University School of Law Olin College of Engineering Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Saint John’s University School of Law Seton Hall University School of Law Seattle University School of Law Touro Law Center University of Cincinnati School of Law William & Mary Law School …with many more pending!

Digital Commons contact: Patti French Southeast Account Manager, Digital Commons Berkeley Electronic Press Phone: (973) 960-3558 [email protected] Upcoming Events: http://www.bepress.com/events/ Digital Commons Newsletter: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/newsletter/ Research on ―IR’s‖: http://works.bepress.com/ir_research/