Bucknell Digital Commons is our institutional repository, a place for collecting and disseminating research, scholarship, and other intellectual and creative outputs of our campus.
As outlined in the University’s Open Access Policy, faculty can use the institutional repository to make their articles (and other forms of scholarship, when possible) ‘green’ open access. Faculty can also use the repository to increase their work's visibility by submitting their work's metadata without including the full text.
1. From Bucknell’s Digital Commons homepage, you can click “Submit Research”

2. You will be brought to a page of the different series and collections. Click the link that you feel best describes what you will be submitting. If you are unsure or if you do not see a collection that fits, please contact the scholarly communications committee at scholarlycommunications@bucknell.edu

3. Fill out the required and any optional metadata in the relevant form. Filling out the keywords and description are particularly helpful in enhancing the findability and visibility of your research through Google and other commercial search engines through Digital Commons’ search engine optimization.

4. If you wish to use Digital Commons as a tool for making your published scholarship “Green OA” or for disseminating your works with a creative commons license, we encourage you to use the upload file section and upload a version of your work (often the accepted manuscript or the official version) to Digital Commons or link out to the site where the content is openly available.

5. Click “Submit” and your submission will be sent to an administrator for review and final posting.