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Information on Hope College's institutional repository of faculty and student scholarly work, archives materials, and college publications.

Introduction

Hope College Digital Commonsis the college's institutional repository where faculty and student scholarly work, as well as college publications and archives collection finding aids, digital collections, and oral histories, are stored and made openly accessible to the public. The repository helps to highlight the academic output and history of Hope College.

Hope College Digital Commons runs on bepress'Digital Commons平台——托管存储库解决方案。

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Hope College Digital Commons content can also be found by searchingHope Primo.

Faculty Bibliography

Hope College's faculty bibliography is available at theRecords of Faculty Scholarship and Creative Performance.

Starting with the 2018 faculty bibliography citations will be supplied from theFaculty Activity Reporting (FAR)system. It is no longer necessary for faculty to submit citations directly to the library for inclusion in the faculty bibliography.

Open Access Policy and Submissions

Open Access Policy

Hope College faculty are asked to follow the college'sOpen Access Policyand submit peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings to Hope College Digital Commons. Please see theOpen Access Guidefor more information. This guide will also help determine what publishers will allow for deposit in the institutional repository.

Faculty are encouraged to submit other forms of scholarship in addition to peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings, including books, book chapters, performances, presentations, exhibits, and works of art.

Open Access Fund

The Van Wylen Library may be able to assist with article processing fees for open access journals. Visit theOpen Access Fundsite for information.

Submissions

For detailed information on how to submit scholarship to the repository, please click on theFaculty SubmissionsorStudent Submissionstabs above.

Digital Commons Account

When faculty create an account with Digital Commons they have access to their own, personalized,Author Dashboard. The dashboard provides usage statistics for submitted work, including how many times a work has been downloaded and from where. Further information on theAuthor Dashboardis availablehere.

Authors also receive emailed monthly readership reports when their email addresses are present in their submissions.

To establish a Hope College Digital Commons account, please gohere.