The BU Digital Commons is a valuable way to extend the scholarly output of Butler University to include greater reach and increased circulation not only in Indiana, but throughout the country and beyond. This increased visibility, awareness, and stability benefits both content creators and Butler University as well. Some of the benefits include:
- Visibility of your work in a centralized location means more of your peers can find and cite your work (via searches in GoogleScholar and other federated search engines), providing you with a wider audience.
- Inclusion of your work in the full range of research conducted at Butler University provides you with institutional recognition.
- Context for your work, placing you side-by-side with the scholarly and creative contributions of your colleagues.
- Creates a digital archive of your work.
- Continuity so that your work is assured a stable online location that can be cited now and in the future.
- Complements existing print and electronic sources in your field.
- Submitting your works to the BU Digital Commons can help meet the criterion of some grants with data-sharing aspects.
