Institutional Repository Guidelines

10/25/18

IR Core Team: Grace Allbaugh, April Anderson-Zorn, Marisa Brooks, Anne Shelley, Eric Willey

These guidelines are intended to outline the Institutional Repository Service and provide a framework for which issues and enquires can be addressed. For more information or assistance, please e-mail .

Criteria for submission

ISU faculty, staff, students, alumni and other employees or collaborators are all eligible to deposit work in ISU ReD. Deposits may be made by creators/authors, their representatives, or library personnel. Works from undergraduate authors must be submitted with the endorsement of a faculty or staff member from the academic unit from which the work originated. Works to be deposited in ISU ReD include but are not limited to pre- or post-prints of scholarly papers, reviews, books, and book chapters; presentations, proceedings, poster sessions, or conference workshops; creative works and performances; white papers; student capstone projects; dissertations and theses; technical reports; syllabi, lesson plans, and other instructional materials; datasets, and other scholarly works. Original versions of a work should be submitted with updates allowed only on a very limited case-by-case basis. Works must be in a finished stage. ISU ReD is not to be used for works in progress. There are no limitations to the amount of material that an author can submit. Should files be larger than 100 MB, or in any file format not listed in Appendix A, please contact for assistance.

Submission responsibilities

All deposits must be accompanied by a statement confirming the right to deposit and descriptive information for each file (metadata). Milner Library personnel moderate submissions for metadata completion and appropriateness. Appropriateness includes: eligibility of authors/creators, relevance to the scope of the repository, valid file format, etc. Depositors are responsible for the scholarly quality of the submission, while ISU ReD is responsible for the appropriate storage and availability of the material. Files that contain any sensitive information (personally identifiable information, human subject code numbers, etc.) must be appropriately de-identified prior to submission. De-identification standards are detailed in the "Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving" at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/ICPSR/access/dataprep.pdf (ICPSR, 2012). Upon submission of a work, ISU ReD will provide a confirmation of receipt to the depositor(s) via e-mail.

Current faculty and staff at Illinois State University may submit their CV or list of publications to the library, and the library will deposit their works on their behalf. The library will check copyright on each work, seek permission if needed, and will upload allowed works to ISU ReD. For more information about this service, contact .

The copyright owner(s) retains rights to the work but grant(s) the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University the non-exclusive rights to copy, display, perform, distribute, publish, migrate to alternative formats for preservation and usability, and archive the content in the University's institutional repository, or as otherwise permitted by law. For assistance with any submission issues, please contact .

Metadata (Descriptive Information)

When adding a work to ISU ReD, the depositor must supply basic descriptive information, or metadata, about the work. Required metadata includes, but is not limited to: title of the work, creator name, date of completion or publication, department or other academic affiliation, abstract or summary, and subject headings or keywords. This information will be made publicly available in ISU ReDand will be indexed and retrieved by external search engines such as Google, OAIster, etc.

Access and Reuse

The majority of items in the repository may be accessed by anyone, free of charge. Depositors will receive monthly notifications of the number of times each deposited work has been downloaded. Depositors can also access the usage statistics of their deposited works through the author dashboard. At the request of the depositor, or otherwise dictated by copyright agreements, Milner Library will grant an embargo period for a thesis, dissertation, creative work, or culminating student capstone project after deposit. While under embargo, only the metadata record will be displayed for that work, and after the embargo period expires, the full text of the work will be made freely available in the repository. Milner Library will honor deposit embargo periods that are dictated by the rights agreement between the publisher of a work and the author of a work.

Unless otherwise noted, works may be copied, displayed, or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided the following conditions are met: the author's name, title, and full bibliographic details are given, a hyperlink and/or URL for the original metadata page is provided, and the content is not altered.

Preservation

Milner Library has subscribed to an institutional repository service, known as Digital Commons, to host ISU ReD. This service is provided by the company bepress. This service will accept discrete file formats for ingestion, retain the files and associated metadata, and guarantee compatibility and functional preservation for PDF documents (their preferred format for text-based files). Neither functional preservation for other file formats nor checksums or other integrity checking services are provided. Should this contract be terminated, bepress will permit export of all files and associated metadata to be retained by Illinois State University.

Withdrawal and Succession Plans

Works may be withdrawn at the discretion of Milner Library personnel in the following circumstances: violation of the submission agreement; receipt of a take-down notice, subject to Milner Library's existing guidelines regarding theses and dissertations; and disputed rights, including authorship disputes.

ISU ReD is a commitment to the Illinois State University community to curate their works for the long-term. While Milner Library will endeavor in good faith to fulfill this commitment, we cannot guarantee that ISU ReD services will not suffer, or cease, should funding be discontinued. Should the institutional repository service for ISU ReD change, all efforts will be made to move content to a new service provider. Should the institutional repository cease to exist, all efforts will be made to ensure that the works are properly curated and/or returned to the authors/creators.

Appendix A*

If a file format is labeled as ‘supported’, then there is a high likelihood that its content, appearance, and functionality will be preserved over time. If a file format is labeled as ‘known’, then the format is recognized, but there is no guarantee that the functionality be preserved over time. If your file format is not listed, please contact for assistance.
Name Extensions MIME Type Support Level
Adobe PDF pdf application/pdf supported
AIFF aiff, aif, aifc, iff audio/x-aiff supported
GIF gif image/gif supported
HTML htm, html text/html supported
JPEG jpeg, jpg image/jpeg supported
MARC application/marc supported
PNG png image/png supported
Postscript ps, eps application/postscript supported
RTF rtf, rtx text/richtext supported
Text txt, asc text/plain supported
TIFF tiff, tif image/tiff supported
XML xml text/xml supported
Microsoft Word doc application/msword known
Microsoft Powerpoint ppt application/vnd.ms-powerpoint known
Microsoft Excel xls application/vnd.ms-excel known
audio/basic au, snd audio/basic known
WAV wav audio/x-wav known
MPEG mpeg, mpg, mpe video/mpeg known
Microsoft Visio vsd application/vnd.visio known
FMP3 fm application/x-filemaker known
BMP bmp image/x-ms-bmp known
Photoshop psd, pdd application/x-photoshop known
Video Quicktime mov, qt video/quicktime known
MPEG Audio mpa, abs, mpega audio/x-mpeg known
Microsoft Project mpp, mpx, mpd application/vnd.ms-project known
Mathematica ma application/mathematica known
LateX latex application/x-latex known
TeX tex application/x-tex known
TeX dvi dvi application/x-dvi known
SGML sgm, sgml application/sgml known
WordPerfect wpd application/wordperfect5.1 known
RealAudio ra, ram audio/x-pn-realaudio known
Photo CD pcd image/x-photo-cd known
AutoCAD dwg known
AutoCAD Exchange Format dfx known
AutoCAD Internet Files dwf known
DejaVu djv known
RealVideo ra, ram video/x-pn-realvideo known
sid sid known

* Modified from University of Connecticut. (n. d.). Format Support Policy. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/formats.html