Goal: to share the university's creative and academic outputs
Site was started in 2015, Digital Commons Platform
Launch included:
Doug Drabkin’s Open Educational Repository
Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Business Research
Currently dormant
Partnership between Cal State LA and FHSU
Find the repository from FHSU library homepage:
Left sidebar > Collections > Scholar’s Repository
How to make an account for those who don’t have one:
Right Sidebar > My Account > Sign Up > Use FHSU domain email
Use breadcrumbs at the top under the header to backtrack
SIDEBAR FUNCTIONS
Can limit searches by collections, disciplines, and authors
Author FAQs and a LibGuide for detailed instructions on how to submit works to the Repository (for faculty and master's students)
We no longer archive print copies of theses, so digital archival is essential
Links for how to order a bound copy of the thesis
Faculty can submit CV for analysis
FEATURED RESEARCH
Faculty scholarship and master’s theses:
Research Unit, center, or department > select a college/department > faculty publications or master's theses
Organized by submission year, not necessarily publication year
Can “jump to” a particular year using the drop-down menu
Scroll to bottom of any landing page to see the map of download locations
Journals and Peer-reviewed series
Journals that are part of FHSU output, many are archives
Click on a live journal to navigate to its homepage, view current articles and information about the journal purpose, submission process, etc.
Search the Site in the right sidebar to search within a single journal or across all Digital Commons repositories
Open Educational Resources
Special Topics
Curated series pulled from the content already in the Repository
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging is the current offering
Within a series, Hosted Journal Content is separated from Faculty Publications and Master’s Theses
SelectedWorks Author Gallery
Author profiles for those who have created one
Less frequently used, Digital Commons has reduced the convenience of this program by requiring searchable profiles to be part of an institution that pays for a subscription – if faculty move to a nonsubscriber institution, their profile will become unsearchable
Would like to generate more interest, we just renewed our license with them
DIGITAL COMMONS DASHBOARD
My account > Dashboard Tools > Digital Commons Dashboard
Default map shows readership distribution of all entries on the website, can be limited using drop-down menus
Scroll down to see institutions that have accessed the repository
Far left sidebar allows you to change the graphics, look at PlumX Snapshot for those who have submitted to the repository, or share the dashboard
ARCHIVES ONLINE
Landing page has browsing options organized by topic
Campus history
Research
Student Experience
Reveille yearbooks
Campus documents
Within book gallery collections, you can download the text, check metadata, search within the text
In the viewer module, click the magnifying glass icon to search within the text
Along the bottom of the viewer, you can change the view to full spread or thumbnail view
Use the right sidebar to search within the collection you have selected, in the FHSU repository, or across all repositories on the Digital Commons
You can perform an advanced search or use search limiters, and save a search once you have performed it
The Archives Online don’t encompass everything we have archived – if patrons don’t find what they're looking for, they can talk to the archivist
The Scholars Repository seeks to collect and preserve the creative and scholarly works of the FHSU community and to make these works available to a global audience. Also houses Archives Online.
