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Showcase your institution’s research and scholarly work with Digital Commons

Digital Commons helps institutions save, share, showcase, publish and promote research, scholarship and collections, offering four modules that you can operate separately or combine to optimize your institution’s impact — whatever its size or mission.

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Digital Commons Modules

Institutional Repository

Showcase your researchers’ published and pre-published works.

Digital Commons Data

Advance research data management (RDM) programs with specialized tools to store, manage, curate, share and preserve data.

Digital Commons Journals

Showcase institutional research that drives readership, downloads and citations with an OA journal publishing program.

Digital Commons Exhibits

Highlight key moments of scholarship with online exhibits of research projects and portfolios.

A flexible, modular solution

New content types continue to be produced, average file sizes are increasing, and consumption is occurring on ever-evolving devices and in varying formats, making it necessary to have flexible storage solutions to maintain access to scholarship in whatever form necessary, including images, videos, and specially curated collections.

With Digital Commons modules, each content type can be optimized for storage, preservation and promotion.

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Key benefits of Digital Commons

  • Easy and extensible: Digital Commons is easy to afford, use and grow, with configuration, training support and unlimited cloud storage provided

  • Managed software: New capabilities are added continually and update automatically so you are free to focus on adding and managing your content rather than maintaining it

  • Global scale, local expertise: Digital Commons provides strategic partnership and dedicated support to over 625 institutions in more than 30 countries

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Digital Commons is for:

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Administration

Up-to-date, digitally accessible records of institution output, publications, documents and materials.
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Faculty & Instructors

Reliably share open education resources and courseware and even launch journals with colleagues.
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Students

Permanent, discoverable records of research, capstone and service projects as well as electronic theses and dissertations.
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Institutions & Departments

Showcase full spectrum of faculty and students’ scholarly and research work beyond published articles.
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Centers, Labs & Institutes

Secure storage for our research datasets that can be openly accessed in accordance with funder mandates.
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Marketing

Convieniently managed records, publications, documents and materials for record keeping or curated memorability for engagement with donors and alumni.

"Although we are small, we are passionate about participating nationally and internationally – Digital Commons gives us that connectivity and has become a much-loved platform in the college."

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Marie O’Neill

Head of Enhancement, CCT College Dublin, Ireland

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