Digital Commons Features
Content Upload
- Add content quickly with our streamlined submit form.
- Link to content on external websites
- Post a wide variety of publication types (e.g., articles, preprints, monographs, etc.)
- Upload sound and video files, data sets, and executable files
- Import historical data with batch uploads
- Auto-populate submission metadata with PubMed ID
- As-you-type auto-complete for author metadata
- Auto-convert Word (.doc and .docx) and RTF documents to PDF
- Customize subject-area pick lists for data entry
- Categorize scholarship with three-tiered subject-matter taxonomy
- Support for ETDs
Presentation
- Branded sites for each school, department, institute or center
- A unique web page is generated automatically for each article that includes title, author, abstract, and citation information
- Customized document cover pages and headers/footers
- Meets Web accessibility standards
- Featured article of the day
- Most recent papers page
- Top repository downloads page
Services
- Administrator training
- Unlimited technical support
- End-user support
- Hosting & maintenance
- Ongoing software development
Interoperability
- Optimized for fast and accurate indexing by Google and Google Scholar
- OAI compliant
- Integrated with SelectedWorks
- Metadata stored as qualified Dublin Core
- LDAP integration for single sign-on
- XML gateway for federated search applications
Search
- Full-text searching
- Context sensitive searches (e.g., search this series vs. search the entire collection)
- Saved searches
- Export to EndNote and other bibliographical software
Notification
- Mailing list manager to announce new research
- RSS feeds and automatic email notification for reports of newly published content
- "Tell a colleague" email functionality
- Individual readership statistics
Administrator Tools
- Peer-review journal software
- E-mail tools to manage authors
- Access/subscription control
- Different administrator levels
- Usage statistics at both the series and paper level
Stability & Portability
- Persistent URL
- Entire system accessible from any internet connection
- 99.9% uptime guaranteed
- Content can be delivered to customers for self-archiving