NC DOCKS is the G.R. Little Library's Open Access Institutional Repository for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the scholarly and creative works of ECSU's faculty/staff and students. “Open Access” means that all works in NC DOCKS are freely accessible through the Internet.
Benefits from Archiving Works in NC DOCKS
- Each work is archived permanently with a stable server and it has a URL that will never break
- Each work is discoverable for researchers worldwide through Internet search engines (i.e. Google)
- As a result of this discoverability and free access to the text, articles that are posted in repositories like NC DOCKS tend to be read more and cited more
- Statistics on how often each work has been viewed are automatically generated and appear with each citation on the author's homepage
- For ECSU, NC DOCKS is a great way of validating and showcasing the value of the faculty and student research and creative works to society outside the classroom
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