StanfordDigital Repository

Long term preservation of scholarly works at Stanford

Go to the SDR Dashboard

to create or manage deposits

Enter here

The blue info icons in this app have helpful info on what to enter in each of the fields in the form. Still have questions? Check out our documentation.

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The process is simple

  1. Describe your work and upload your file(s).
  2. Choose a license and access settings.
  3. Click "Deposit" to submit.
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Small effort for large payoff

  • Persistent link for sharing your content
  • Preserved by the Libraries
  • Discoverable by all via SearchWorks
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Who can deposit?

Members of the Stanford community:

  • Students
  • Faculty
  • Postdocs
  • Staff

What can I deposit?

Material of scholarly value:

  • Research data in any format, including data for publications
  • Articles, working paper, pre-prints, technical reports, etc
  • Student works, such as honors theses and course research projects
  • Artistic works
  • Conference materials, like slides and posters
  • Archival documents, recordings, oral histories, etc.

Why should I deposit?

Features of SDR:

  • Shareable, persistent link for citing your work
  • Findable in SearchWorks, the library catalog, which is crawled by Google
  • Easily shareable via social media and embeddable in other websites
  • Available to the world or just Stanford -- you decide!
  • Embargos available up to 3 years
  • Your choice of licenses
  • Digital preservation by Stanford Libraries
  • DOIs also available

When should I deposit?

Deposit your works:

  • When they are complete and ready to share
  • To accompany an article at the time of the article's publication
  • To fulfill the sharing requirements of a grant
  • Before you or your colleagues move on from Stanford

The SDR is not designed as working space or backup storage.

*Visualization Lab of SLAC’s Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). Dwarf Galaxy animation. 3-D videos, created from actual data, show the origins of the universe. Credit: Linda A. Cicero and Steve Fyffe / Stanford News Service; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology May 30, 2012
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