Repository Management Relationship: Subset of Self-Depositor

Demographics / User Characteristics

• Typically a graduate student, sometimes undergraduate honors student
• Usually nearing completion of degree program; preparing to leave Emory
• Is the content creator
• Familiarity with subject area and departmental faculty work
• May have search experience in repository
• Works with Academic Program Deposit Mediator and potentially Library Deposit Supervisor, if submitting an ETD

Frequency and Type of Repository Deposit Use

• Typically just once
• Self-Deposit

General Motivators / Goals

• Fulfill graduation requirements from their respective schools/programs
• Share their scholarship with the campus and wider academic community

Key Deposit Tasks

• Describe their ETD and/or research data
• Upload their ETD and/or research data files
• Set and maintain embargo/access for their ETD and/or research data files
• Obtain a stable link to their ETD and/or research data
• Resuming a deposit than began in a prior session

Repository Content / Information Desired

• Guidance on performing a successful deposit (workflow and digital preservation)
• Verification of successful deposit or notification about changes needed
• Verification of publication (post-graduation)
• Analytics / metrics of deposited works’ usage
• Policies, help, etc.

Type of Material Deposited

• Textual information (PDF, MS Office formats)
• Still images, audio, video - regular and increasing
• Research data - infrequent, but increase expected. Usually accompanying publication, sometimes standalone
• Other/complex objects - rare, but increase anticipated

Library/Unit Interactions

• Student Submitter may be affiliated with any library. Typically interacts with the Scholarly Communications Office and/or their academic department for deposit.