What is Digital USD?
Digital USD (digital.sandiego.edu) publishes, preserves, and provides open online access to the scholarship, creative work, original data sets, and archival material produced by or affiliated with the University of San Diego community. By curating and sharing these historical and current intellectual activities, Digital USD showcases and connects the unique contributions of the university’s faculty, staff, and students to an audience worldwide, fueling new research, discoveries, and knowledge.
Digital USD includes a wide variety of materials from across campus, including but not limited to:
- Faculty scholarship (e.g., publications, creative work, research data)
- Student scholarship (e.g., theses and dissertations, capstone projects, undergraduate work)
- Archival material (e.g., postcard images, yearbooks, finding aids)
- Newspapers and newsletters
- Publications of university centers and institutes
- Open access journals
What are the benefits of depositing work into Digital USD?
- Access: Materials in Digital USD are openly accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Open access promotes global information exchange, networking, knowledge building, and a more equitable information culture.
- Reach: Researchers and students worldwide will discover your work through Google searches and you will be able to see where in the world your readers are located.
- Impact: Fuel the creation of new knowledge as readers discover, download and cite your work. Watch your download count grow larger every day!
- Control: Retain your copyright, and assert how your work may be shared and re-used by others by applying a Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/) license.
- Preserve: Provide a permanent home for your work, and share its link on your website, résumé/CV, social media accounts, etc.
- Enhance: Digital USD tells the story of the University of San Diego, raising the university’s profile and enhancing its reputation.
Can I post my work in Digital USD?
Publishers vary in regards to their policies about posting previously published articles in institutional repositories. In some cases, they allow you to deposit only a specific version of the article, and/or only after an embargo period (a time restriction between when the article was first published and when it can be archived). To help determine whether you can reuse, distribute, or archive a published article in Digital USD, refer to the publication contract that you signed with the publisher, or search the journal title in Open Policy Finder. This database provides information about reusing your published works, along with links to journal publisher's copyright policies and what version of articles authors can deposit into open access repositories. You can also contact digital@sandiego.edu to help navigate this process.