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Hope College Digital Commons is the college's institutional repository where faculty and student scholarly work, as well as college publications, digital collections, and oral histories, are stored and made openly accessible to the public. The repository helps to highlight the academic output and history of Hope College.
Hope College Digital Commons runs on Elsevier's Digital Commons platform -- a hosted repository solution.
Open Access Policy
The college's Open Access Policy requires faculty to submit published peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings for inclusion in Hope College Digital Commons. Please see the Open Access Guide for more information.
Faculty are encouraged to submit other forms of scholarship in addition to peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings, including books, book chapters, performances, presentations, exhibits, and works of art.
Open Access Fund
The Van Wylen Library may be able to assist with article/author processing fees for open access journals/monographs. Visit the Open Access Fund site for information.
Library-Publisher Agreements
Some of the Hope College Library's agreements with publishers include financial discounts or full coverage for Hope College authors publishing Open Access. See Read and Publish for more information.
When faculty create an account with Digital Commons they have access to their own, personalized, Author Dashboard. The dashboard provides usage statistics for submitted work, including how many times a work has been downloaded and from where. Further information on the Author Dashboard is available here.
Authors also receive emailed monthly readership reports when their email addresses are present in their submissions.
To establish a Hope College Digital Commons account, please go here.
Hope College's faculty bibliography is available at the Faculty Scholarship and Creative Performance site.
Starting with the 2018 faculty bibliography entries are supplied from the Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) system.
Hope College Digital Commons content can also be found by searching Hope Primo.