The NU Institutional Repository allows our university to collect, store, and showcase scholarly and creative works, as well as make them accessible to the world.
Benefits of submitting your work include:
Yes. Publications must be designated as either
If you are unsure whether your publisher will allow you to submit to the Open Collection, you can check your permissions in one of three ways:
Yes, you may submit the accepted manuscript for deposit in the repository if the publisher allows it.
Send us a PDF copy of your final manuscript version as you submitted it- you should include revisions made through the peer/editorial review process (if applicable) but should not include publisher branding or final editing.
Yes, you may submit a pre-print (submited) version of a publication for deposit in the repository if the publisher allows it.
Send us a PDF copy of your submitted draft - you should NOT include revisions made through the peer & editorial review process, nor include publisher branding or final editing.
Yes, you may submit your manuscript for deposit in the repository, even if it's under an embargo (a period of time post-publication that you must wait before the publisher allows it to be publicly shared in our repository).
You must note the embargo when you submit your manuscript.
Yes, faculty & staff may submit your research dataset for deposit in the repository.
Yes, we welcome current students and alumni to submit their thesis or dissertation to our NU Masters and Dissertations (Open Access). Please use the Thesis & Dissertation Deposit Form. Note that we cannot accept theses or dissertations completed at another institution.
Yes, the NU Institutional Repository includes content from a growing number of faculty and student research conferences and symposia. If you would like to include your poster or presentation, please use this form.
The IR can accept multiple formats for all digital works. We prefer to accept PDFs for written works. Please contact us if you have a question about the format of your work.
The full text/file of items in our restricted collections will NOT be available to the public, only the description.
You should only submit to our restricted collection if you are unable to submit either:
In those cases, please instead submit your most complete (published or accepted) version of your manuscript to our restricted repository.
Why submit to our restricted collection at all, then? You may wish to do so if you want a record of your publication available in the same location (i.e. the NU Institutional Repository) as your other scholarly work (in our open collection).
Yes! Simply open your item in the repository, click on the "full item page" button, and then the "show statistical information" button.
We need to review all publications to make sure they meet our guidelines for inclusion in the repository, so please submit your work via the following forms:
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