About FIU Digital Commons

FIU Digital Commons is a full-text, online, open access repository and publishing platform for the scholarship and creative output of FIU. The goals of the repository are to:

  • Serve as a persistent and centralized access point for FIU scholarship and creative works
  • Promote faculty and student research to a global community
  • Preserve the history, growth and development of FIU
  • Provide a platform for faculty to post Open Access copies of publications to meet OA requirements of funding agencies.

FIU Digital Commons services include:

Organize research and other works from your department, school or center

Manage the output of your department, school or center in a simple interface. High google rankings make work archived in Digital Commons more findable. Preservation of work is a high priority of the staff of Digital Commons so researchers can be assured their content will be available for the long term. Download reports and statistics for publications in Digital Commons let you know how often and from where researchers are finding your work.

Journal Hosting

Digital Commons provides you with an easy to manage workflow for your peer reviewed publication. From author submission and peer review, to editing and formatting, publishing and finally archiving. Contact the Digital Commons Coordinator for more information.

Conference/Symposium/Colloquia pages

Digital Commons allows you to manage your event from start to finish. The review process, acceptance of speakers, advertising of the event, and finally the archiving of materials from the event can all be managed using Digital Commons.

SelectedWorks

Create faculty webpages highlighting research, publications, presentations, course work etc. in an easy to use FIU branded interface. SelectedWorks also integrates your work in Digital Commons, creating even more exposure to your work.

For more information visit our Digital Commons Guide

Contact Us:

Jill Krefft
Institutional Repository Coordinator