Scholarly Communications Services at the G.R. Little Library

Please read carefully the consent information on the consent form below (accessible from the below link) and you can attach your materials via this form or by contacting us. 

When submitting your materials to the G.R. Little Library's Viking Digital Repository, note the following:

1- While retaining your work's copyright, you grant the library a non-exclusive license for display, distribution, and format adjustments in the repository.

2- Confirm your work is original, non-infringing, and that you have the rights to submit.

3- Understand your work will be public, indexed by search engines in Viking Digital Repository.

4- Works may align with specific licenses you indicate, like Creative Commons.

5- The G.R. Little Library may reach out regarding repository matters.

Before submitting, review publisher copyright policies; many allow open access repository deposits. Check for any access restrictions. Need clarity? Contact our librarians.

Always cite and attribute properly when using Viking Digital Repository materials.

For repository-related queries: EMAIL ADDRESS (A librarian will assist you).

• Each work must be the intellectual property of a ECSU faculty/staff member.
• It must be complete and in final form. For articles, most publishers allow pre-prints to be placed in an IR.
• It must be a scholarly, research, or educational work completed while employed by ECSU.
• It must be made available for global access at no cost via the Web.
• For non-textual items (presentation slides, audio, video, images, etc.), items must be received from the author in a form that can be posted to the database (contact us for more information).
• The author/creator of each work must grant to the G. R. Little Library the non-exclusive right to preserve and distribute the work in perpetuity. For works with multiple authors, the author who is affiliated with ECSU should grant rights to the G. R. Little Library. Profiles will be created only for the affiliated ECSU users. 
• Student works with faculty contributors or advisors might be deposited upon permission of the faculty. 
• While any format is acceptable, proprietary formats should be avoided when possible.
• The library will verify if the publisher allows for IR archiving. Most academic publishers allow this. For those that do not, it will be the responsibility of the submitting author to obtain written permission to place material in the IR.
• Authors may be asked to submit an abstract and a list of keywords for each item admitted to the IR. (Not all items submitted to the IR will be admitted due to copyright or other constraints)
• Contributions to Viking Digital Repository are entirely voluntary; should the author later wish to remove any contribution, the Library will comply with the request.