Institutional Repository Resource Guide

While uploading other types of work is much of the same process, there are a few differences to be aware of.

First, instead of navigating to SGPCE, you are navigating to the specific department that you created the work under. The hierarchy on our Digital Commons mimics the exact same structure as the University. Every college and department is represented and are contained within the same structure as they are in reality. This means that if you are working on an Aviation Maintenance Technology project, you will find this under the College of Aviation, Science, and Technology (CoAST) label, which contains the five departments within CoAST. You can then further expand the Aviation Department to find some new links. 

As students, you will ignore the first two links. As you would with theses, capstones, and dissertations, click into your specific student group!

Under these new links, you will find new links for additional types of works that are not under the SGPCE portal. These can vary by department. Usually, each department will have conferences/presentations/public performances of some kind (outlined in gray in the example below); however, due to the unique nature of each discipline, there are also special types of works under each department. In the example below, we can see that undergraduate works under the Aviation Department has the unique category of "Labs," outlined in red. Some other departments share this type, but they are largely catered to specific departments. As further examples, under the Music Department, there is a portal for compositions; under the Art and Design Department, there is a portal for visual art. 

The metadata for these other categories will be nearly the same. However, a few key differences to point out. 

• For presentations or performances or productions (radio, TV, podcast, theatre), you will give the date of the presentation/performance, not the date of publication or date of degree completion
• For presentations or performances or productions, you will give the name of the lecture or conference series or production series if one is available
• For art work, music, or creative writing, you will give the date of the piece's completion
• For art work, music, or creative writing, you will give the name of the series if the work is part of a series

Everything else that is required under capstones, dissertations, and theses remains the exact same: we expect authors to provide name, title of the work, the category of the work, keywords, discipline, and a Creative Commons license. For some works, like visual art or music, you may not need to fill out an abstract or keywords unless the project is part of a larger series or was attempting to answer a research question. However, please use the space for the abstract to explain anything relevant to the piece that you wish for people to know.