About Scholar Commons at Santa Clara University
Scholar Commons is a digital platform used to showcase the research and intellectual output of href"https://www.scu.edu/">Santa Clara University faculty, staff, and students; and its academic colleges, schools, departments, centers, and other administrative units. The University Library makes these materials permanently and freely available in an open access setting so they can be seen and used by a global audience. Articles, book chapters, student projects, theses, dissertations, data sets, and historic University content are all candidates for deposit. You submit your works, we handle copyright vetting and clearance, ingest, and uploading of materials.
Included works will usually be authored/created, in part or whole, by an Santa Clara University or Jesuit School of Theology faculty, staff, or student (with faculty sponsorship). Content does not have to be authored by an SCU or JST affiliate. For example, items may be accepted into the repository from:
- Conferences that are held at / sponsored by SCU/JST
- SCU/JST affiliate organizations
- Honorary appointments
- Increased discovery and citation impact. Your work will be accessible through Google and other search engines worldwide, providing visibility to a wide audience of researchers and readers.
- Persistent access. Your work will have a stable and permanent URL. This URL can safely be copied and pasted into documents or emails pointing to your work.
- Easy archiving. Scholar Commons provides a simple way to ensure permanent and centralized storage and discovery of your work, without the need for you to do system maintenance or worry about technological barriers.
A wide range of formats are supported: pdf, xml, text, html, MS Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, and image formats including jpeg, gif, and tiff. Check with us for supported data-set formats.
To learn more about Institutional Repositories, please visit our IR research page.
Please contact us for general inquiries on Scholar Commons and its services.
