Evelina Yim, Administrative Coordinator II
You are invited to explore Digital Commons @ New Haven, a showcase and database for works created at the University of New Haven!
Digital Commons @ New Haven is designed to store, showcase, and share the scholarly and other works created by members of the University of New Haven community. The scope of the collections will evolve as determined by the Institutional Repository Advisory Board.
Digital Commons @ New Haven also maintains the American Business Review. The American Business Review (ABR) is a leading academic business journal with a global audience of businesses, business faculty, and business students. ABR is an open-access journal published by the Pompea College of Business.
The repository employs Digital Commons from bepress as its primary tool, with management, instruction, and maintenance provided by the library.
Elements of the University's Strategic Plan that Digital Commons helps fulfill:
“Experiential, collaborative, and discovery-based learning”;
“Discovery, creativity, and scholarship”;
Discovery goes two ways: faculty and students discover others doing similar work in their fields, and others will discover their work.
Scholarship is celebrated and organized through the creation of our University of New Haven-branded repository.
“Collaboration”:
Digital Commons @ New Haven promotes collaboration among members of the University of New Haven community and opens up opportunities for collaboration in the wider world of academia by access through Google Scholar and the international Digital Commons Network.
“Fostering quality, interdisciplinary connections”
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“Promoting interdisciplinary and collaborative research” :
Members of the University of New Haven community can explore other departments’ work and collaborate with others more easily.
REPUTATION
(d) "enhancing graduate programs through student/faculty interaction in research, project-based activities, service learning, and career activities”
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(e) “enhancing faculty strength in research and teaching excellence”
Digital Commons @ New Haven encourages quality in these types of research by giving them a showcase and giving authors a potentially worldwide audience to consider.
Strategic Planning Pillars
2. Transformational Experience Through Student Engagement
(f) Promoting interdisciplinary and collaborative research so that students view problems and issues from new or different perspectives and learn and appreciate the value of interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving.
Digital Commons facilitates interdisciplinary learning by making it easy to search or browse documents across the disciplines, both in our own repository and in the Digital Commons Network of 300+ institutions. Disciplines may be viewed from a narrow or broad perspective.
3. Technological Advancement
(a) Employing technologies that lead to greater levels of skill, improved operational effectiveness, enhanced teaching and learning, and superior preparation of students entering the workforce with the ability to apply technology effectively.
Digital Commons streamlines the process of scholarly communication. It gives students and faculty a tool that will help them find and build on others' research. The platform has a history of adapting to new technologies, such as expanding its storage capacity and adding geolocation features to image galleries.
Digital Commons @ New Haven helped relaunch the American Business Review. ABR is a leading academic business journal with a global audience of businesses, business faculty, and business students. It is an open-access journal published by the Pompea College of Business. To view more about the journal and the current volume, please follow the link above.
The American Business Review appeared in print form in June 1983 as an outlet for research by business faculty across the world. Longtime faculty members recall that the legendary Dean of the School of Business, Marilou McLaughlin (ML) encouraged the founding editor, Thomas Katsaros, to develop and run the journal. Over the years ABR grew in stature and influence.
Due to logistical reasons, the ABR discontinued paper issues in 2004. The publisher converted past issues into digital form and it was indexed in ABI-Inform etc. and citations to manuscripts continued to increase. The ABR continued to be listed as an “A” journal in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal list given its reach and impact.
The current editor, Dr. Kamal Upadhyaya, had been wanting to relaunch the journal for some time. The opportune moment arrived with the centennial celebration of the publisher. The current Dean, Dr. Brian Kench encouraged and supported the initiative. Dr. Upadhyaya teamed up with Dr. Subroto Roy (co-editor) to relaunch ABR in Spring 2020. The ABR publisher, University of New Haven celebrates its centennial year in 2020.
Beginning in Spring 2019, records of student theses and dissertations are being added to the Student Works Collections in Digital Commons @ New Haven. Full-text papers are being added as we receive permission from the authors. If you would like your pre-2019 thesis or dissertation scanned for open access, please contact the Access Services Manager.
If you would like to suggest an additional term, please contact Digital Services.
Author's accepted manuscript (AAM): the author's version of a work, edited after review. Usually the last copy the author sends before publication. It does not include the publisher's typesetting or imprint. An example of an AAM is this document from Digital Commons @ New Haven. It is also known as a post-print.
Book Gallery: A collection of book descriptions in Digital Commons. It is usually associated with a department. An example is the English Faculty Book Series.
Digital Commons: A platform from bepress that hosts over 300 institutional repositories worldwide.
Digital Commons @ New Haven: University of New Haven's institutional repository.
DOI: Digital Object Identifier. This is a unique number to identify a publication and its official location. An example is 10.1017/S1431927609096810. If you preface it with https://dx.doi.org/ you will get a URL. So https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927609096810 will take you to the citation on the publisher's website. But the full text (AAM) can be found for free at https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/forensicscience-facpubs/2/
Institutional repository: A database and showcase of work produced by authors at a given institution, such as a university. An example is Digital Commons @ New Haven.
Open Access: free to readers. Open Access takes different forms. See the page on "Open Access" under Scholarly Communication in this guide.
Post-print: same as author's accepted manuscript.
Pre-print: The author's original manuscript before submission, or any draft prior to the accepted one.
Published article or Publisher's PDF: The publisher-typeset version of the article.
Series: A collection of short works such as articles or book chapters in Digital Commons. It is usually associated with a department. An example is the Criminal Justice Faculty Publications series.
