1. XULA Digital Commons Purpose and Uses
Kayla Siddell
XULA Digital Commons Purpose and Uses

2. What is an institutional repository?
An institutional repository is an archive and database for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.
This includes born-digital and digitized material.

3. Who is the institutional repository for?
Committees and Organizations (Library Advisory Committee, CAS)
University Offices (CURGO, Career Center, CAT+FD)
Student Groups (Greek, Clubs, Sports)
Classes (Research Methods)
Faculty and Staff
Students
Alumni

4. What is it used for? Digital Platform for Scholarship
Preservation, Discovery, Access
Promotion and Marketing
Retention and Recruitment

5. What types of work are accepted?
Faculty
Students
Other
Open access works
Thesis and Dissertations
University Documents
Published works
Capstone Projects
Xavier Publications
Working papers
Publications
Campus Events
Presentations
Workshops
Posters
Tutorials
Workshop Materials
Music
Teaching Materials
Art
Technical reports
Course specific assignments

6. Benefits and Uses for Faculty
Journal Articles
Poster Presentations
Recordings of Presentations
Teaching Materials (Syllabi, Assignments)
Oral Histories
Art
Music
Tracking Usage of works
Expert Gallery

7. Benefits and Uses for Faculty
Once a Faculty member uploads work to the Repository, they can then create an Expert Gallery Profile.

8. Expert Gallery

9. Benefits and Uses for Students
Thesis and Dissertations
Capstone Projects
Publications
Presentations
Posters
Music
Art
Expert Gallery

10. On-Campus Publications
Pathways
Xavier University of Louisiana’s journal of first-year-student essays. We have published since 2012, but 2017 was our final print edition. This website is in progress, as we archive past content.
XULAneXUS
First published in 2002, XULAneXUS is a peer-reviewed online journal that publishes the scholarship of Xavier University of Louisiana undergraduates. The journal has been sponsored by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity and funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 
University Press

11. University Records Committee Agendas and Meeting Minutes
Collaborative Working Documents
Tutorials
Workshops
Events

12. Teaching Materials Open Educational Resources Select Assignments
Syllabi

13. Authors Dashboard Allows authors to track:
how often their work is being downloaded
What type of institution the downloader originates
Which countries are they from and how many times they downloaded

14. Author Dashboard

15. Current Stats

16. Current Stats United States 87 Japan 17 France 5 India 3
United Kingdom 2
Russian Federation
Singapore
Malaysia 1
Canada
Cyprus
Finland
Indonesia
Italy
Libya
Argentina

17. Visit XULA Digital Commons
Digitalcommons.xula.edu

18. Current Stats Name Type Downloads Xavier University of la Education 24
Northeastern University 12
Webster University 1
The Pennsylvania State University
Portland State University
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Stanley Fulgham
Commercial
LLC Masterhost
Cal Association of Realto
Organization
Ezone Biotechnologies
Maximiliano Zwecher
Wilmington University Inc.

19. How to get started? Contact
Kayla Siddell, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Mary George, Institutional Repository Librarian