2. What Are Institutional Repositories?
Digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities.
A centralized location to collect, showcase, disseminate, and preserve scholarly output.
A mechanism for expanding access to scholarly research.
A platform for publishing scholarly research online.

3. Why Build A Repository at Fordham?
To enhance the reputation and visibility of the University.
To showcase the University’s intellectual quality.
To preserve and disseminate the collective research capital of the University.
To build on the growing faculty practice of self-posting research online.
To help achieve our goal of ARL membership.

4. “Digital Commons” Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)
The leading hosted repository platform.
Online submission form.
Journal and Conference toolkits.
Link to content on external websites.
Batch uploads
Auto-conversion of Word, WordPerfect and RTF documents to PDF.
Branded sites for each school, department institute or center.

5. Repository Contents
Repositories typically include peer-reviewed articles, open access or subscription based journals, monographs, pre-prints and other works-in-progress, conference papers, theses and dissertations, creative works, and supplementary research materials.
The Digital Commons platform can also host audio and video files, data sets and executable files.

6. Repository Contents Conferences
One time or ongoing events.
Archive proceedings and manage event through the system.
Can include multimedia.
May also have independent branding.

7. What’s In It For Faculty
Worldwide visibility and increased readership of your research.
Repository contents are full-text indexed in both Google and Google Scholar.
Greater opportunities for collaboration in your field – thousands of scholars have signed up to be alerted to new research by or via RSS feeds.

8. What’s In It For Faculty
Disseminate your research and grow your academic network.
Direct readers to one place to find your research.
Persistent URL’s mean there are never broken links.
Find new readers from within your discipline, adjacent disciplines, professionals, press and others outside of academia.

9. What’s In It For Faculty
Track interest with monthly readership reports
Total full-text downloads - past month per paper.
Total full-text downloads to date per paper.
Because of bepress’s filtering, each hit is likely to be an actual download by a person rather than the result of being touched by a robot of some kind.

10. You Can Start Now To learn more about “Digital Commons” visit:
To browse the new Fordham repository visit:
or click on the link on the Library homepage.
To get an account for the repository or for questions contact Michael Considine at Ext or by

11. What’s Next Working Group for Planning and Management.
Presentations at Faculty department meetings.
Workshops for Faculty.
Marketing and outreach Efforts.
“Freedom of the press is limited to those
who own one.”-- A. J. Liebling