{"id":2290,"date":"2017-11-07T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2017-11-02T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T19:18:12","slug":"digitalcommonsdownloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/digitalcommonsdownloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Scholarship at IWU Earns Millions of Downloads!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed a headline in the October 23rd Campus Weekly\u00a0reading &#8220;Digital Commons @ IWU Exceeds 3 Million Downloads.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.iwu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Commons<\/a> is Illinois Wesleyan University&#8217;s institutional repository, and it is here that students can deposit faculty- or peer-reviewed research. Additionally, Digital Commons also contains selected works from faculty, staff, and university departments, offices, and programs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2312\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/11\/digitalcommons-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/11\/digitalcommons-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/11\/digitalcommons.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So what kinds of materials are available for download through Digital Commons?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Student work deemed outstanding will be included in DC@IWU. These include honors theses, work presented at the John Wesley Powell Undergraduate Research Conference, works published in peer-reviewed IWU student journals and outstanding creative works as determined by faculty in a sponsoring department. Acceptable formats include text, images, video and audio files.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/digitalcommons.iwu.edu\/student_guidelines.html<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DC@IWU accepts a wide range of materials including text, images, video and audio files. Examples of content include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Articles, pre-prints and post-prints (distribution rights permitting; please see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherpa.ac.uk\/romeo\/\">SHERPA\/RoMEO<\/a>\u00a0for more information<\/li>\n<li>Book chapters (distribution rights permitting; please contact publisher for permission. Templates with suggested language for communicating with publishers are available for your convenience.)<\/li>\n<li>Audio files<\/li>\n<li>Conference papers<\/li>\n<li>Dance performances<\/li>\n<li>Datasets<\/li>\n<li>Faculty course related output<\/li>\n<li>Musical scores and composition recordings<\/li>\n<li>Poetry and creative writing<\/li>\n<li>University produced journals<\/li>\n<li>Video files&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>http:\/\/digitalcommons.iwu.edu\/faculty_guidelines.html<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Student work has comprised much of the 3 million downloads between 2008 and 2017. If you&#8217;re interested in making your own research available through Digital Commons, you can find the guidelines for submission <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.iwu.edu\/student_guidelines.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A live map of the downloads in real time is located at the bottom of the Digital Commons homepage:\u00a0http:\/\/digitalcommons.iwu.edu\/. In the past week alone, users from places as far-flung as India, China, Africa, Finland, and Australia have downloaded IWU student research!<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the 3-million download milestone here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2017\/digital-commons-at-iwu-exceeds-3-million-downloads.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed a headline in the October 23rd Campus Weekly\u00a0reading &#8220;Digital Commons @ IWU Exceeds 3 Million Downloads.&#8221;\u00a0Digital Commons is Illinois Wesleyan University&#8217;s institutional repository, and it is here that students can deposit faculty- or peer-reviewed research. 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