Institutional Repository: ScholarsCommons

Mission 

ScholarsCommons is FGCU's portal for showcasing scholarship, expertise, and activities by our community of scholars. ScholarsCommons aids in the transmission of knowledge by allowing the public to have a window into our community and its work.

New! Add your scholarship to Interfolio with these step-by-step instructions!

Content 

The FGCU institutional repository, ScholarsCommons collects unique scholarly content produced by the FGCU community. Our current collection includes FGCU theses and dissertations dating back to 2001 and a growing collection of scholarship and research from campus institutes and departments. ScholarsCommons accommodates both born-digital materials and items that have been converted to digital, including text, images, audio, video, 3D data, and will add other formats as they become relevant in the future.

Faculty can deposit their research and scholarship (either via linked citations or files) into their respective faculty profiles by signing into ScholarsCommons. Deposits can include: 

• Peer-reviewed publications (journal articles or book chapters) 
• Research materials 
• Curriculum materials (course syllabi, multimedia instruction, etc.) 
• Conference papers 
• Research posters 
• Music scores 
• Performances 
• Capstone projects 

For step-by-step instructions on how to add your work, please refer to the ScholarsCommons User Guide. If you have any questions about what works are appropriate for deposit/permitted by copyright in ScholarsCommons, please contact Research Systems & Applications Librarian Kaleena Rivera at krivera@fgcu.edu.

Institutional repositories provide open access to scholarship produced at an institution. For more on open access, please see our scholarly communications libguide. Put simply, the Florida Gulf Coast University Library Institutional Repository (IR) is a single online location where the scholarly and creative works of the FGCU community is gathered and preserved to make them publicly available (copyright permitting). This output may include publications in peer-reviewed journals and materials not published elsewhere (datasets, pre-prints, post-prints, performance recordings, theses and dissertations, recorded lectures, book chapters, etc).

The institutional repository is organized into a handful of basic categories in order to accommodate a variety of possible user searches. These links include:

• Scholars, specifically FGCU teaching faculty
• Departments, in order to peruse scholarship developed by specific university departments
• Scholarly Publications, articles and other faculty-created scholarship that can be searched by subject
• Theses & Dissertations, created by FGCU graduate students as well as graduating Honors College and Marieb College of Health and Human Services students
• Student Research, created by the FGCU student body for research events and symposiums, such as STEM Undergraduate Research and Internship Symposium, the FGCU Writing Awards, and Research Day
• Published @ FGCU, works created by a specific entity such as the Aquila Student Research Journal, The Mangrove Review, and performances at The Bower School of Music

Institutional repositories are quickly becoming standard at various academic institutions throughout the world. Examples of a few well-known repositories include: 

• Harvard University Library DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) 
• Columbia University Library Columbia Academic Commons
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) DSpace@MIT
• Northwestern University Arch Research and Data Repository 
• University of California eScholarship
• University of Cambridge Apollo