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Expand your global reputation with Digital Commons

Display visual content, enhance collaboration and make lasting, global connections.

Whatever your institution's strategic goals – supporting open access initiatives, measuring your impact, attracting potential researchers or showcasing your profile for global success – Digital Commons advances your capability to promote the full breadth of your scholarly outputs.

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“Probably one of the highlights of my career is being able to work with faculty, staff and students, getting their research out into the cyber sphere, and letting other researchers, other scientists and other people around the globe build on their work.”

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Debra Rodensky

Scholarly Communication Librarian at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, USA

Showcasing excellence - Remastering your digital space

Institutional research is unequivocally complex. In striving for research excellence, institutions are under pressure to compete across multiple facets – with the visibility of your work being a key part of this.

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The same is true for exhibits; yet, while digital repositories are an innovative way to curate your work online, they can also pose limitations. Complex publishing structures can inhibit an institution’s potential, in an age in which showcasing the true breadth of your offering, in the right way, could define visibility, influence and global success.

Digital Commons enables you to publish, showcase, share and promote your institution's research, scholarship with ease, boosting the visibility of your institution’s scholarly output.

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Reframing success – Unearthing the true value of your work

Today’s research has far more to offer than traditional success metrics would suggest. 66% of researchers state that the industry lacks sufficient frameworks to illustrate the true value of research impact. While research is of significant benefit to society, 58% of researchers are frustrated by the inability to demonstrate its wider impact on the world.

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This represents an opportunity to ensure that the broader impact of scholarly outputs are recognized, measured and widely communicated, in the right way. The link between research and non-bibliometric success clearly requires deeper exploration – 68% of the market believe that the current lack of understanding in this area will become an existential risk for the industry.

“Research policy needs to strike a balance, says Mark Reed. It must incentivize impact while creating a culture in which researchers are drawn to impact on their own terms.”

Back to Earth: Landing real-world impact in research evaluation, 2024.

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Depicting impact - Transforming the physical into the virtual

Digital Commons offers a suite of tools to highlight your institution’s full impact, showcase your strengths and meet institutional goals. With easy-to-use online capabilities, you can publish, promote, save and share your institution’s research and collections, benefitting from the maximum impact with no additional coding or admin required.

Digital Commons Institutional Repository and Exhibits are seamlessly linked, creating efficiencies in the data management process so you’re not working across disparate systems when bringing your collections to life.

“The University’s strategic mission is to elevate student success and that’s what this program does. It improves access and equity as well as reduces attrition rates by appealing to the needs of our students.”

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Karen Bjork

Head of Digital Initiatives at Portland State University

Digital Commons Institutional Repository

  • Seamlessly upload your collections into an online repository, showcasing your institution’s value and enhancing your global reach

  • Consolidate research into a connected suite of products, giving you one platform to maintain and optimize

  • Share research outputs widely, amplifying your global reach and facilitating open research principles

  • Appeal to researcher needs in an innovative way, elevating their successes and reducing attrition rates

  • Underline your inclusivity principles by providing researchers and librarians with easy access all resources, removing barriers to study

Digital Commons Exhibits

  • Supports the curation of digital assets and creates interactive narratives as an additional layer to the Institutional Repository, importing data directly from your existing Digital Commons collections

  • Minimize costly storage challenges related to born-digital content, such as audio, video and image files

  • Speed up access to the best research for librarians and researchers, in a visual, attractive interface

  • Leverage efficient searchable functionality, with the ability to showcase multiple file types

“We cannot be happier because our faculty want nothing more than to have everybody read their work.”

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Debra Rodensky

Scholarly Communication Librarian at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, USA