If you are a member of the USM community (faculty, staff, and current students) we encourage you to submit your work to be featured on DC.
What kinds of work can I submit?
We welcome current faculty and staff to submit research and creative works including but not limited to peer-reviewed articles, opinion features, creative works, recorded events and lectures, OERs, and more. We encourage students to submit digital copies of their theses, capstones, and dissertations. Faculty and teaching staff should contact the Digital Projects Manager with questions about submitting materials created by students for class assignments. I want to submit work to DC, but I can't figure out how to upload items myself - what's going on?
Very few structures on USM's DC allow authors to upload directly. If you have encountered a mail form after selecting a link from the "Submit Research" page, the administrators of that specific structure have disabled direct uploads. Please fill out the form with your name, department, and information about what you want to add to the repository. The administrator will be in touch during Digital Projects business hours (M- F, 9-5 pm).
If you have selected a community allowing direct uploads, you may find the information on this page helpful.
When in doubt, please use the contact information provided on the Submit Research page to reach-out to the Digital Projects Manager. I'm an author - what happens when I submit work to DC? USM Digital Commons is our web-based, open-access-compliant institutional repository for scholarship and creative works produced by USM faculty, staff, students, and their collaborators. This open-access policy in no way diminishes the copyright responsibility of those viewing or downloading the documents. The authors of these documents retain the copyright to the intellectual property these works represent in their current form. I submitted a thesis or capstone project a few years ago and, for professional or personal reasons, I'd rather not list it on DC anymore - what can I do? That's OK! We get it - there are plenty of reasons why you might not want the work you produced as a student visible to prospective employers or publishers. You can reach out to the Digital Projects manager for more information.
