{"id":207889,"date":"2018-05-16T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=207889"},"modified":"2018-05-16T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:33:59","slug":"digital-commons-showcases-montclair-state-scholarly-and-creative-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2018\/05\/16\/digital-commons-showcases-montclair-state-scholarly-and-creative-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Commons Showcases Montclair State Scholarly and Creative Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, University research and creative works can be digitally accessible under the Digital Commons umbrella. Managed by Sprague Library, the recently launched institutional repository, <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.montclair.edu\">Montclair State University Digital Commons,<\/a> makes University scholarship available to a worldwide audience through an open-access environment.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Commons is a hosted institutional repository platform that more than 500 colleges, universities and research centers subscribe to in order to collect, preserve and share their scholarly and creative output. It serves the interests of Montclair State \u2013 a national- and state-designated research university \u2013 by preserving and showcasing the work of faculty and University community members, as well as archival materials documenting the University\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dean of Library Services Judith Lin Hunt, the repository fosters scholarly networking and creative collaboration by making University research \u2013 and creative works \u2013 available to a broad regional, national and international network. \u201cA professor in Sweden may discover a Montclair State professor conducting research in the same field \u2013 which allows them to collaborate and expand their network to a professor in South Africa,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy capturing the intellectual output of the University, the repository provides visibility and influence to a worldwide audience, which, in turn, opens up new avenues for further research and collaboration,\u201d says Sprague Library Research and Projects Specialist Karen Ramsden.<\/p>\n<p>With Digital Commons, the University community gains a useful tool for exploring past and current research, individual author and contributor profiles \u2013 and for supporting current scholarship and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt and Ramsden are pleased with the repository\u2019s reception. \u201cWhile the site continues to be populated, as of May 2018, the site has been viewed in over 80 countries \u2013 with over 1,500 items uploaded and more than 2,400 downloads,\u201d Ramsden reports.<\/p>\n<p>Content can be searched by author name, research interest or department and is readily accessed by visiting the repository site at <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.montclair.edu\">https:\/\/digitalcommons.montclair.edu<\/a> . If you would like more information, please contact Karen Ramsden at <a href=\"mailto:ramsdenk@montclair.edu\">ramsdenk@montclair.edu<\/a> or <a href=\"tel:973-655-5276\">973-655-5276<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New institutional repository fosters networking and collaboration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":207896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207894,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207889\/revisions\/207894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}