1. It's Easy to Showcase Your Work with Digital Commons and SelectedWorks
Presented at Library Live by
Liz Richardson, Document Delivery and Institutional Repository Manager
October 14, 2016

2. It's Easy to Showcase Your Work with Digital Commons and SelectedWorks (Room 333, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.)
Session Description
Digital Kent State University Libraries is Kent State's institutional repository (IR), highlighting and providing access to the scholarship of KSU's multi-campus system in digital format, arranged by department, campus or institute.  SelectedWorks is a platform for presenting a library of an individual faculty member's published works, presentations, handouts and other products of research or teaching.  Attend this session to learn the advantages of including your work in Digital Commons and SelectedWorks and how to submit your work to be included in both.  

3. Digital Commons @ Kent State University Libraries
What is Digital Commons? Digital Kent State University Libraries is Kent State University's Institutional Repository, a platform for the preservation and promotion of the academic output of our multi-campus system. The purpose of Digital Kent State University Libraries is to publicize, disseminate, and preserve the scholarly work of Kent State University scholars and affiliates in an open access environment for the purpose of shared knowledge and learning.
As Kent State University’s Institutional Repository, ideally the goal of Digital Commons is to collect and provide access to ALL scholarly output of Kent State University.

4. Digital Commons @ Kent State University Libraries
What does Digital KSU Libraries Include?
Academic Communities
Image Galleries
Electronic Journal Publishing
Electronic Book Publishing
Conferences, Symposia, Events
Data Management
SelectedWorks
To learn more about these features, please see the Guidelines at

5. Digital Commons @ Kent State University Libraries
Academic Communities in Digital Commons
Contain published articles, chapters, proceedings, and similar materials in full-text, links, or citations
Communities Page arranged by college/school/division and department or unit
Uploaded papers are connected to same discipline at other institutions via Digital Commons Network

6. SelectedWorks -
What is SelectedWorks? SelectedWorks is a platform for presenting a library of an individual faculty member's published works, presentations, handouts and other products of research or teaching.
When you send us your publication list to enter in Digital Kent State University Libraries, we do the work for you! Works entered in Digital Commons can be imported to your personal SelectedWorks page!

7. Digital Commons @ Kent State University Libraries
SelectedWorks
A virtual library and research network for your scholarship
SelectedWorks Gallery
(Video) Introduction to SelectedWorks:

8. Digital Commons @ Kent State University Libraries
Why not just use a social networking site?
Institutional repositories such as Digital Commons provide a stable, reliable, highly discoverable (optimized for Google)  medium for scholarly communication.
Sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu are well-known and have millions of subscribers--including spammers, scammers, predatory publishers, fake and unreviewed research, and student scholarship not identified as such. Digital Commons contains student scholarship and identifies it as such.
Social media sites do not check for copyright and licensing permissions (see example on this slide) and may be in violation of such. Digital Commons - we check copyright.
You can set up your SW page or we can get it started for you. Items entered in Digital Commons will import directly into your personal page.
Digital Commons Network – find research and researchers at other institutions
Detailed Reports of your downloads: Author Dashboard

9. Digital Commons @ Kent State University Libraries
SelectedWorks: Getting Started
Go to and start your own!
Be sure to use address
Send your publication list to or to
After your items are posted in Digital Commons, collect them to SelectedWorks
We can help!

10. Digital Commons @ Kent State University Libraries
Thank you!
Visit Digital Commons at digitalcommons.kent.edu
us at
Elizabeth (Liz) Richardson