This spring, Steely Library has expanded our digital repository services to better serve our campus community. NKU’s Digital Repository provides worldwide open access to the creative output, scholarship, and research of our NKU students, faculty and staff. This range of work includes student scholarly and creative output, faculty and staff scholarship, and historical materials from Steely Library’s Special Collections & University Archives. With our new self-submission form and integration with ProQuest for graduate students to share their dissertation, thesis, or final projects with our digital repository, our NKU campus community has more ways to share their scholarship with the wider public. Highlights of these new, expanded services are below. 

• Self-submission form: Student, faculty and staff at NKU will now have the option to upload their own scholarship directly into the digital repository through our new self-submission form. This form provides flexibility to authors to upload their materials on their own schedule, while making their work openly accessible and more visible and discoverable by the academic community and the wider public.  
• Integration with ProQuest for graduate students: When graduate students prepare to submit their dissertations, theses or final projects to ProQuest’s Dissertations & Theses Global, they will now have the option to also include their work in NKU’s Digital Repository. Including a copy of their dissertation, thesis, or final project in our digital repository will ensure open access to their scholarship and allow future students to see the potential scholarship they could pursue at NKU. 

Interested in learning more or submitting your scholarship to NKU’s Digital Repository? Please visit our NKU Digital Repository Research Guide to learn more about submitting your content.  

If you have a larger collection of materials, including student scholarship, that you would like to be uploaded to our digital repository, Steely Library is also collecting interest through our Digital Repository Project Interest Form. After filling out the form, our team will be in touch to set up a meeting to learn more and discuss the feasibility of ingesting this content.