Submitting to the eCommons Repository

Submissions to the eCommons Digital Repository are limited to Cornell University Faculty, Staff, Students ane certain select people affiliated with the University.

For information on entering data for submissions, please read our document Best Practices for eCommons Metadata.

Those affiliated with Cornell University, who wish to submit items to this eCommons Digital Repository, must register with us.

Once you have been approved for submitting to eCommons, you can do a submission by doing the following:

• Log into your eCommons account using the "My Account" link in the left navigation bar.
• Select either the "Start a New Submission" button or "Start a New Quick Submission" button. If you have trouble at any time in understanding what a field is used for or what to do, click the Help link on the Left Navigation Bar.

If you select, "Start a New Submission":

• The first screen will be "Choose a Collection". If you are authorized to multiple collections, you will have to choose the proper one to submit to.
• Click the "Next" button.
• On the Next screen, check the appropriate boxes, if your item has more than one title, if it was previously published, or if there is more than one file associated with this item.
• Click the "Next" button.
• Describe the item. If you don't know what a field means, don't woory about it. You need only fill in Author, Title and select type. If you had previously indicated that this item was published before, you will need to fill in teh publication date.
• Click the "Next" button.
• Add Keywords and Abstract information.
• Click the "Next" button.
• Upload the item. If you had previously selected that this item contains more than one file, then you will be asked if you wish to submit more files after the first upload is completed.
• Verify the upload and make any corrections
• Click the "Next" button.
• Agree to the license agreement
• Submission is complete and you will get an e-mail explaining how to access your submission. If your submission requires approvals, then you will get your confirmation e-mail after the submission is approved.

If you select, "Start a New Quick Submission":

• The first screen will be "Choose a Collection". If you are authorized to multiple collections, you will have to choose the proper one to submit to.
• Click the "Next" button.
• Agree to the license agreement
• On the Next screen, you are presented with a screen in which to fill in your information and upload your file. Items marked by a "*" are required.
• Click the "Next" button.
• Verify the upload and make any corrections
• Click the "Next" button.
• Submission is complete and you will get an e-mail explaining how to access your submission. If your submission requires approvals, then you will get your confirmation e-mail after the submission is approved.

For information on protecting your rights to your intellectual property, go to www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html.

For information on copyright management at Cornell University, go to www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/copyright.

For a list of publishers' policies regarding the authors rights to publish pre-prints and postprints on a repository such as DSpace, go to www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php?all=yes.