Prepared by: Deposit FRG

Last Revised: March 2018

Status: Final Draft

Approved by:

Repository Management Relationship: Subset of Self-Depositor

Demographics / User Characteristics

• May be faculty, adjunct faculty, visiting scholar, clinician, post-doc, medical fellow, etc.
• May be affiliated with any academic or research discipline
• Is the content creator, but may rely on proxy depositors to interact with the repository
• Potentially works with Library Deposit Supervisor to complete deposit

Frequency and Type of Repository Deposit Use

• Varies by discipline - currently, sciences more than humanities (may change in future state)
• Varies by submitter - some self-deposit, some depend on proxy
• Self-Deposit

General Motivators / Goals

• Enhance Emory FIRST faculty profile, potentially for tenure review and promotion consideration
• Share their scholarship with the campus and wider academic community
• Fulfill funding/grant requirements

Key Deposit Tasks

• Describe scholarly works and/or research data
• Upload scholarly works and/or research data
• Set and maintain embargo / access privileges
• Obtain a stable link to records/publications
• Resuming a deposit that began in a prior session
• Link records/publications to related datasets in external data repositories 

Repository Content / Information Desired

• Information on prior personal deposits for reference
• Information on prior departmental/colleague deposits for reference
• Notification/receipt of successful submission
• Notification of edits made by repository administrators
• Analytics/metrics of deposited works’ usage
• Guidance on performing a successful deposit (workflow and digital preservation)

Type of Material Deposited

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

Library/Unit Interactions

• Faculty/Researcher Submitter utilizes services from one or more libraries, but typically interacts with Scholarly Communications Office for deposit.