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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.

Depositing your work in DukeSpace

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.

How to submit items to DukeSpace

  1. Open DukeSpace in your web browser: http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/
  2. Login using your NetId by selecting either the login link at the top right of your screen or from the left-side menu
  3. Under the “My Account” options on the left-side menu, select “Submissions”
  4. Click the “Start a new Submission” link
  5. Select “Duke Faculty Articles” from the drop-down collection box. Click Next.
  6. Follow directions for completing the submission form; hints are listed below each field; if several cases, such as for “author,” you will see an “add” button at the end of the field. This allows you to enter more than one author, if applicable. Upload your file as prompted after completing the form. Review your submission
  7. Click the box granting the non-exclusive distribution license; any copyrights in the submission remain with the author or other copyright holder and subsequent uses of the submitted material by that person(s) are not restricted by this license
  8. Click “Complete Submission” and your work is live on the web!

Formats for deposit

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:

Images Audio Video
GIF (.gif) AIFF (.aif or .aiff) Apple QuickTime (.mov)
JPEG (.jpg or .jpeg) CD-DA Microsoft AVI (.avi)
PDF (.pdf) CD-ROM/XA MPEG
TIFF (.tif or .tiff) MIDI (.mid or .midi)
PNG (.png) MPEG-2

SND (.snd) 

WAV (.wav) 

Featured items

Illustration from hydrofracking paper

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.

Illustration from NSOE masters paper on American Tobacco Campus environmental sustainability

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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Last published February 23, 2012 8:10:45 AM EST