Appendix B - Guidelines for the NC State Scholarly Publications Repository
Appendix B
File Formats in the NC State Scholarly Publications Repository
PDF is the preferred format for submissions to the Repository, and the original/”native” file from which the PDF is derived is welcomed for preservation purposes as well. PDF is a widely accessible and more easily migrated than most formats. For assistance in converting documents to PDF, please contact repository@ncsu.edu.
Individual files deposited in the Repository should normally be less than 2 GB in size (we enforce a limit of 3GB). Growth in the total size of a collection of files associated with a research project and deposited into the Repository normally should not exceed 15 GB per year. If you have questions about these size limitations, please contact repository@ncsu.edu.
| File Format | Extension | Level |
| Adobe PDF | supported | |
| Postscript | ps, eps, ai | supported |
| GIF | gif | supported |
| JPEG | jpeg, jpg | supported |
| PNG | png | supported |
| TIFF | tiff, tif | supported |
| HTML | html, htm | supported |
| Text | txt | supported |
| Rich Text Format | rtf | Supported |
| DeVice Independent | dvi | Supported |
| XML | xml | supported |
| Microsoft Word | doc | partially supported |
| Microsoft Excel | xls | partially supported |
| MPEG Audio/MP3 | mp3, mpa, abs, mpeg, | partially supported |
| MPEG, MPEG4 | mpeg, mpg, mpe, mp4 | partially supported |
| WAV | wav | partially supported |
| BMP | bmp | partially supported |
| Video Quicktime | mov, qt | partially supported |
| Other | unsupported |