Publish, showcase, save, share and promote your institution's research, scholarship and collections with Digital Commons. Our solution offers four modules that can operate separately or in combination to amplify your institution's reputation and impact.
Boost the visibility of your institution’s scholarly output
Openly host, manage and promote the full spectrum of your institution’s research & scholarship
With a Digital Commons Institutional Repository, you can showcase the full spectrum of your institution’s scholarly outputs and track engagement. This intuitive open access platform offers a range of unique features from seamless integration with Digital Commons’ Journals, Data and Exhibits modules, to unlimited and secure storage of your institution’s outputs – whatever the file size or type.
Other benefits include world-class SEO, automatic platform updates/maintenance and a stable cloud platform delivering 99.9+% uptime.
Publish and share high-quality open access journals with minimal effort or platform expertise
Digital Commons Journals empowers your institution to create a world-class open access journal publishing program. In addition to industry-leading visibility and indexation by Google Scholar, your journals benefit from dedicated technical support and expert advice.
Importantly, the solution greatly reduces the administrative burden on your editorial teams and shortens publication times for authors. And you can rest assured that your journals are hosted on a secure and stable platform with automatic releases and customization options.
Develop and deliver virtual collections that highlight key moments of institutional scholarship
With Digital Commons Exhibits, you can develop and deliver virtual collections to showcase and contextualize your institution’s digital content. The intuitive and flexible interface makes it easy to manage, customize and curate exhibits, while the museum-quality designs enable you to create compelling stories.
Digital Commons Exhibits is the only exhibits solution integrated with an institutional repository (the Digital Commons IR), streamlining common workflows and saving administrators substantial time and effort.
Create and manage an institutional data repository for your researchers and administrators
Digital Commons Data stores, manages, publishes, preserves and showcases your institution's research data. As an Elsevier solution, it provides global visibility and support for your research data management program. Not only is it scalable and easy to customize, it also provides usage analytics, including PlumX Metrics.
This module integrates with other Elsevier solutions; for example, Data Monitor. The integration automatically displays datasets from your institution found in the 2,000+ open repositories that Data Monitor indexes.
Gain strategic insight into your institution's success with Digital Commons' Dashboards
Leading analytics tools like the Digital Commons Dashboard support editors, authors and administrators and allow users to measure and report on the impact their work is having locally and around the world.
The Digital Commons Dashboard shows the organizations and regions that engage with your work, and how they’re finding it, so you can better identify research trends, potential funders, and collaborations.
The granular metrics and key insights these dashboards provide are a great resource for understanding impact and guiding data-driven strategy development.
Seamless support for your repository management with our Consulting Services team
Eliminate concerns over storage, hosting, and upgrades with our comprehensive support. Our team provides personalized training, tailored site configuration, and prompt support, typically responding within one business day. Whether you prefer to write or call, our team is like an extra member of your staff, ready to assist you every step of the way. Contact us to learn more about our training courses and IR Manager Certification Courses.
Who benefits from Digital Commons?
Administration
Up-to-date, digitally accessible records of institution output, publications, documents and materials.
Faculty & Instructors
Reliably share open education resources and courseware and even launch journals with colleagues.
Students
Permanent, discoverable records of research, capstone and service projects as well as electronic theses and dissertations.
Institutions & Departments
Showcase full spectrum of faculty and students’ scholarly and research work beyond published articles.
Centers, Labs & Institutes
Secure storage for our research datasets that can be openly accessed in accordance with funder mandates.
Marketing
Conveniently 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
Ready to increase your institution’s impact? Contact our sales team today to learn more about how the Digital Commons can benefit your institution.
