Student Submitter
Prepared by: Deposit FRG
Last Revised: March 2018
Status: Final Draft
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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) - often the primary content
- 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.