The CDR provides a secure home for your research and scholarly work. The University and the Library are committed to providing long-term access to materials placed in the repository, and are vigilant about securing and backing up data.
In addition, the CDR employs standards that allow materials to be discovered and indexed by public search engines such as Google and Google Scholar. This makes your work accessible for your continued research and the work of others. Works can also be restricted from public view.
Materials are accessible via the CDR website (unless embargoed or set for restricted access). Deposited materials will be keyword indexed and searchable through the CDR and public search engines. We strive to permanently maintain materials in the repository, but if there is a need to remove material, please refer to our Withdrawal from the CDR. If you see an error in a work, please contact us.
Once submitted to the CDR, your digital scholarship will become part of a systematic digital preservation program so that years from now, you and others can count on accessing and using your research. You submit the material and the CDR takes care of the rest.
Faculty works submitted through the Open Access Carolina form are made available immediately, with the exception of embargoed content.
Otherwise, the timeline depends on the size and complexity of the collection. CDR staff will first meet with you to find out more about your collection and become more familiar with the materials. CDR staff will coordinate preparation of technical data and transfer of the collection.
Yes. When submitting through the Open Access Carolina form, just be sure to enter the email address of the author under “Email Address for Deposit Receipt.”
You can deposit publications created in your class if we have the record that each student author has agreed to the terms of deposit. For help see Depositing Student Work.
CDR staff can create DOI’s for individual works by request. If you would like a DOI for your submission OR if you have an existing DOI to add, contact us. In the comments, include a link to the work in the CDR and to the DOI (if it already exists), and we can make these changes for you.
If you are the administrator responsible for publishing student work for your department, log in to the Carolina Digital Repository by clicking the “Login” button at the top right of the screen and following the Single Sign-on procedure. When you return to the CDR home page, click the “Admin” button at the top right of the screen. This will bring up an administrative screen with your collection displayed. To the right of your collection, click on “Review unpublished items” or click on your collection name and navigate to a Review Folder if your collection has one. This will bring up a list of unpublished work that you may review by clicking on each item to preview it. When you are ready to publish, click in the box next to each item in your list that you want to publish and click the “Publish” button that will appear at the top of your list.
