JMU Scholarly Commons

JMU Scholarly Commons is a resource for sharing the scholarship and activities of the James Madison University community. These materials include papers, presentations, data sets, images, and multimedia items.

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As an institutional repository, JMU Scholarly Commons is a hub to showcase the research and scholarship of the James Madison University community. Contributing your work to JMU Scholarly Commons will increase its accessibility and discoverability. The benefits of contributing your work to JMU Scholarly Commons are:

• Increased visibility of your work through search engine optimization, including Google Scholar and major search engines.
• Increased accessibility of your scholarship through unique, persistent URLs that will eliminate the concern of “dead links” on other websites.
• A centralized location for all of your scholarship – both published and unpublished, as a complement to existing print and electronic publications. Supplemental content can be uploaded to provide additional information and context.
• Ability to create reports to indicate timely impact of your work, including views, downloads, and how your work was found.
• Ease of publicizing your work through mailing lists, social media buttons, and RSS feeds.

For more information please consult the full JMU Scholarly Commons Collection Development & Preservation Policies.

JMU Scholarly Commons accepts content that meets the following guidelines. These guidelines are subject to change.

• The work must be produced, submitted, or sponsored by JMU faculty, researchers, or staff
• The work must be: scholarly, educational, or research-oriented in nature; or is considered to be official communications of James Madison University
• The work is intended to be a permanent part of the repository
• The author and/or copyright holder is willing and able to grant James Madison University the non-exclusive right to distribute and preserve the work through JMU Scholarly Commons as well as in companion and successive systems

JMU Scholarly Commons Administrators

Becca Kruse Digital Collections Specialist Scholarly Communications Strategies	Mark Lane Head of Digital Assets, Associate Professor Scholarly Communications Strategies

Contact us with questions or concerns about JMU Scholarly Commons.