Digital Commons - bepress (2024)

FAQs

What is Bepress Digital Commons? ›

Digital Commons is a best-in-class hosted solution to openly publish, manage and showcase the full spectrum of your institution's research and scholarship.

One of the most important aspects of maintaining a reliable repository service is the provision of stable links to your content. Digital Commons provides clean, stable, and easily citable links to your content.

DigitalCommons@Cedarville offers a professional-grade journal publishing platform that simplifies and expedites the peer-review process by tracking submission and referee activity, automatically emailing appropriate reminders, and providing a mechanism for anonymous correspondence between reviewer and author.

Digital commons are a subset of the commons, where the resources are data, information, culture and knowledge which are created and/or maintained online.

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Digital Commons is a commercial, hosted institutional repository platform owned by RELX Group. This hosted service, licensed by bepress, is used by over 600 academic institutions, healthcare centers, public libraries, and research centers to showcase their scholarly output and special collections.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Digital Commons Journals empowers your institution to create a world-class open access journal publishing program. In addition to industry-leading visibility and indexation by Google Scholar, your journals benefit from dedicated technical support and expert advice.

Digital Commons Data is a generalist data repository — a research data management (RDM) solution for researchers, administrators, and data curators to store, manage, curate, share and preserve data.

The digital commons are a form of commons involving the distribution and communal ownership of informational resources and technology. Resources are typically designed to be used by the community by which they are created. Examples of the digital commons include wikis, open-source software, and open-source licensing.

How do you check if a source is peer-reviewed? ›

Is it published in a peer reviewed journal? You can type the name of the journal into any search engine and learn about the submission process to see if it is peer reviewed. Additionally, if you use the library search or a database to find articles, they will usually indicate if it is from a peer reviewed journal.

Peer reviewed articles are often considered the most reliable and reputable sources in that field of study. Peer reviewed articles have undergone review (hence the "peer-review") by fellow experts in that field, as well as an editorial review process.

Learning commons, also known as scholars' commons, information commons or digital commons, are learning spaces, similar to libraries and classrooms that share space for information technology, remote or online education, tutoring, collaboration, content creation, meetings, socialization, playing games and studying.

commons, in Anglo-American property law, an area of land for use by the public. The term originated in feudal England, where the “waste,” or uncultivated land, of a lord's manor could be used for pasture and firewood by his tenants.

The definition of the Tragedy of the Commons is an economic and environmental science problem where individuals have access to a shared resource and act in their own interest, at the expense of other individuals. This can result in overconsumption, underinvestment, and depletion of resources.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from universities and colleges who use the Digital Commons platform by BePress.

Digital/internet commons are a form of commons involving the distribution and communal ownership of information resources and technology. Examples of digital/internet commons include open-source software, open hardware, open design, open licensing, open standards, and open data.