DukeSpace is the Library’s open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty, students, and the greater Duke research community. Recent Duke dissertations, theses, master’s projects, undergraduate honors theses as well as open access copies of Duke faculty articles are part of the repository.
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To provide enhanced access, storage, and preservation of your scholarship, faculty (or their delegates) may submit their work(s) electronically using the Library’s DukeSpace digital repository. Your work will be web accessible under the provisions of the Duke Open Access Policy and assigned a persistent URL.
For articles and other text-based works, we recommend that you submit your document in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). No compression or password protection should be used.
Additional files such as audio or video clips and digital images to which the submitter holds the copyright may also be submitted with the paper. Contact the DukeSpace administrator if your file is larger than 512MB before submitting it. Accepted file formats include the following:
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| JPEG (.jpg or .jpeg) | CD-DA | Microsoft AVI (.avi) |
| PDF (.pdf) | CD-ROM/XA | MPEG |
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A study performed by Duke researchers on "hydrofracking" (titled "Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing", by Stephen Osborn, Robert B. Jackson, Avner Vengosh and Nathaniel Warner, all of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment) has been getting a lot of attention. The full text of the paper and supplementary materials are now archived and available to all here in DukeSpace. They are also available directly from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences via their open access option.
For the past year DukeSpace has become the site of record for master's projects by Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences students. Some of the students have done studies with a very local impact, exploring issues like the carbon impact of new construction on campus, Duke's increasing use of locally grown food in its campus dining services, and proposing an environmental sustainability plan for the American Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham. Theses and dissertations by students in other Duke programs are also available in DukeSpace.
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