The NCSU Digital Repository is a growing collection of citations and full text scholarly works from NC State faculty members, graduate students, and research staff. It consists of three digital collections that highlight and archive the scholarly works of NC State researchers.

Scholarly Publications Repository: A growing collection of citations and full text of scholarly works by NC State faculty members, graduate students, and research staff.

Technical Report Series Collection: Technical report series published by NC State’s colleges, departments, institutes, and research centers.

Electronic Theses & Dissertations: NC State ETDs completed since 2002, with partial coverage for 1997-2002. Earlier theses & dissertations are available via the catalog.

If you would like to submit your works in these collections, or have any other questions, please visit the Submission page.

As of April 7, 2008, the NIH Public Access Policy requires investigators, or designees on their behalf, to submit NIH funded peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication, to PubMed Central, a publicly accessible digital archive. The implementation of this policy is an important step forward in supporting open and broad dissemination of publicly funded scientific research.

This Policy applies to you if your peer-reviewed article is based on research that meets one or more of the following categories:

1. Directly funded in any part by an NIH grant or cooperative agreement active in Fiscal Year 2008 (October 1, 2007- September 30, 2008) or beyond;
2. Directly funded in any part by a contract signed on or after April 7, 2008;
3. Directly funded in any part by the NIH Intramural Program;
4. If NIH pays your salary.

NCSU Libraries is collaborating with the Sponsored Programs and Regulatory Compliance Services to assist researchers at NC State understand and comply with this new NIH Public Access Policy.
This 2-page handout provides an overview of the policy and a 3-step process of ensuring compliance for NC State researchers.

More information for NC State researchers is available here: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/nih.html

Background information on the NIH Public Access Policy, details of the submission process, and other FAQs are available from the NIH public access site: http://publicaccess.nih.gov

Movements for open archiving and dissemination of scholarly articles received a major boost when Harvard faculty voted to require deposit of all articles written by the Arts and Sciences faculty in Harvard’s own institutional repository. The faculty agreed to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly by giving the University a worldwide, non-exclusive license to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available and to exercise the copyright in the articles, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit. Authors retain copyright and are free to publish their work anywhere they like as long as the publisher will accept that copyright is subject to this prior license. The decision is a strong affirmation of the value of open access to academic research, both to the public and to the academy itself.

For more information and opinion on the decision by Harvard’s faculty see William Patry’s excellent summary along with commentary from Peter Suber’s Open Access Newsletter. The implementation of Harvard’s vote will be worth watching carefully for its impact on efforts to promote broader and more open dissemination of the scholarship of faculty and researchers.