Frequently Asked Questions


What is the scope of Digital Commons @ New Haven?

Digital Commons @ New Haven promotes collaboration among members of the University of New Haven community and opens up opportunities for collaboration in the wider world of academia through access to international networks such as the Digital Commons Network and Google Scholar. Digital Commons streamlines the process of scholarly communication. It gives students and faculty a tool that will help them find and build on others' research, as well as their own. It is a platform for open access in scholarship. To learn more about Digital Commons @ New Haven, please check out our About page.

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How can I search in Digital Commons @ New Haven?

There are a few ways you can search within our repository. You can browse through our collections, which are made up of our colleges, student works and open access journal. You can also browse by a specific author’s name or discipline. Finally, you can use the search box to find items by keyword or title.

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What are the benefits of Digital Commons @ New Haven?

Digital Commons @ New Haven is a vehicle for open access, a movement in scholarly communication that promotes sharing documents within a university community and with the public. This leads the way for an equitable and sustainable future. Supporting the creation and publication of open access textbooks and journals. DC @ New Haven also fosters collaboration from within our university to globally. Sharing knowledge is sharing wealth. Ultimately, we are a platform of sharing, showcasing and preserving our community’s intellectual scholarship. While supporting our community researchers.

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Who can submit works to Digital Commons @ New Haven?

Any faculty or administrative staff member affiliated with the University of New Haven may deposit materials into our repository. Undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students are required to submit their thesis/dissertation to Digital Commons @ New Haven for posting.

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What can be submitted to Digital Commons @ New Haven?

Any original work of a member of the University of New Haven Community is eligible. This includes works created by multiple individuals, as long as at least one of the authors is affiliated with the University of New Haven. The versioning of the works posted will be decided upon once a submission has been placed and publisher/author rights have been reviewed. We do not encourage submissions of citations or abstracts without an associating paper referenced. Digital Commons @ New Haven also posts the works of our undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students. In summary, submissions can include books, book chapters, journal articles, creative works or theses/dissertations. Data sets and supplementary files can be posted as well.

Our hosted journal, the American Business Review, accepts original articles with an audience based of businesses, business faculty, and business students. Manuscripts published can be from any discipline or multidisciplinary, as long as, the ABR audience takeaways are addressed. For more information about submitting an article to ABR, please refer to our website.

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What file formats can Digital Commons @ New Haven accommodate?

The Digital Commons platform can accommodate articles, books, book chapters, links, data sets, presentations, images, audio and video files, posters and conference proceedings. Files can be in .doc, .xlsx, .ppt, .pdf, .jpeg, .png, .mp3, .wma, .mp4, .wmv, .csv, or .xml formats to name a few. For further details about how to accommodate your original work, please contact our administrator.

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Are these publications protected by copyright?

Most items are protected by copyright. Copyright for the works in Digital Commons @ New Haven remains with the individual copyright holders and is not transferred to the University of New Haven or the Marvin K. Peterson Library. Authors often transfer copyright to a publisher at the time of publication. If the author of a given work has not reserved licensing rights during publication negotiation, then it is usually necessary to request permission from the publisher to post works on Digital Commons @ New Haven. Our admin use the SHERPA/ROMEO site, which provides easy access to the general publication terms of many publishers. However, normally, only the creators of the works will know the precise terms of the publication agreement and whether deposit in an institutional repository is allowed. For our records, in the comments section, we provide information about the work’s status. Along with any required notices from the publishers and/or authors.

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What is Digital Commons?

Digital Commons is a hosted platform to publish, manage and showcase an institution’s research and scholarship. For more information, please visit the Digital Commons website.

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For Authors, please visit the Author Help page for more specific details about submitting works and your account.

For further assistance, please contact our Digital Commons @ New Haven administrator, Amber Montano, by email or phone, (203)-479-4197.