Research Guides: Scholars Junction: Acceptance Criteria: Criteria

Introduction

This guide will help you understand our acceptance criteria for Scholars Junction.

In short, we accept materials by, for, and about Mississippi State University.

By
Any MSU student, faculty, or staff can submit their original scholarly work.
For
Items should have been produced while the above people were affiliated with MSU.
About
We collect materials that document MSU's history.

Submitters must be affiliated with MSU, or have been affiliated at the time the item was created.
Any MSU student, faculty, staff, researcher, or clinician can submit materials to Scholars Junction.
The person submitting the material must hold the copyright, or have express permission from the copyright holder.
For previously published work, check your publishing agreements to ensure that you have retained the right to deposit the work in an institutional repository.
The material cannot contain proprietary, sensitive, or personally identifiable information.
If the material contains research on human subjects, it must have been approved by IRB.
The material must be intended and licensed for open access distribution.
Limited embargoes are available for select items, but all material in Scholars Junction must be or become open access.

The materials we accept include, but are not limited to, the following:

There is no restriction on the overall file size of your contribution.
The Digital Commons platform offers unlimited storage. However, there are some practical limitations on what you may be able to submit.
Most internet connections will successfully support file uploads of up to 2gb each.
Visit our guide to learn more about self-submission via the Scholars Junction web interface.
Batch uploading is available for larger files, or larger groups of files.
Visit our guide to learn more about how we upload these files.

We prefer supported or known file formats.
- Supported formats are public, open formats that can be used in the future through migration or emulation (e.g., .pdf, .html, .xml, .latex).
- Known formats are proprietary but so widely used that they will almost certainly be usable for the foreseeable future (e.g., .docx, .xlsx, .psd, .mov).
- Unsupported formats are filetypes that we can't commit to keeping usable (e.g., .wps, .exe). You can still submit them, but should provide a ReadMe file explaining how to open them, and should not expect them to be preserved forever.
  - Any executable software files should be submitted in a .zip archive for security.

About Scholars Junction
A brief introduction to Scholars Junction, MSU's institutional repository.
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