Robert Cooke, Cornell professor emeritus of biological and environmental engineering, which offers full-text books for reading online free or to be printed for a fee. Much of this will be found in Internet First Publishing, a venture launched by J. You'll find, for instance:ĮCommons also is filled with Cornell history, including departmental histories and oral history interviews. The repository is indexed by major search engines.ĮCommons is eclectic and often esoteric.

If necessary, some material can be posted with limited access. Researchers and scholars can use the repository to post preprints of journal articles, supporting material associated with published articles, book chapters or anything else they want to make available. 'It's important to have a place to capture, preserve and make accessible the digital output of the university,' says John Saylor, interim associate university librarian for scholarly communication and collections and chair of the committee that overhauled DSpace.ĮCommons can contain images, audio, video and datasets. What once was known as DSpace has become an expanding repository for Cornell research and scholarship. Now Cornell librarians have moved everything upstairs, dusted it off, put a new sign on the door and, most importantly, added a lot of new stuff.

There were gems here and there, but you had to know where to look. Not long ago, wandering into DSpace, Cornell's online digital repository, was like exploring that dusty room in the basement of the town library, full of zoning maps and town council minutes from the early 1900s.

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