Dissertations in ScholarlyCommons http://repository.upenn.edu What Putting Dissertations in ScholarlyCommons Will Do: • Allow students to publicize their work more easily. • Allow interested researchers to access student work more easily • Make student work easily accessible through Google and Google Scholar • Preserve dissertations in digital form • Give students stable URL links of dissertations • Make Content full-text searchable • Allow students to receive reports of how many downloads his/her work received • Protect student work from plagiarism by making it easier to detect • Give students more control over presentation of their work What • • •
Putting Dissertations in Scholarly Commons Will Not Do: Prohibit students from publishing dissertations elsewhere Take away copyright or other proprietary rights of the author Prohibit students from placing a limited embargo on their work
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schools that already allow electronic submission Berkeley Brown Cornell
Process for submitting dissertations in ScholarlyCommons • Will still be largely the same • However, students would go to http://repository.upenn.edu • Create an account (just name, e-mail, and institutional affiliation) • Select department from a drop-down list • Submit dissertation • Paper will still be available if needed • Paper will still be available via ProQuest For more information, please contact Shawn Martin, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Penn Library (215-573-4207 or shawnmar@upenn.edu).
12 November 2007