Islandora Digital Collections (items added through 2024)

Digital Commons Digital Collections (items added 2025 - Present)

Florida Atlantic University's digital research repository supports open access to scholarly content by providing access to the creative and scholarly works produced by Florida Atlantic University students, faculty, and researchers.'s Research Repository:

Florida Atlantic University's digital repository:

• Facilitates the wide dissemination of research

• Showcases and brands Florida Atlantic University scholarship to attract new students, researchers and grants to the University

• Increases citation impact because research is discovered more easily

• Supports author efforts to retain copyright to their scholarly work

• Creates a collective body of knowledge showcasing faculty accomplishments for accreditation purposes and serves to aggregate the intellectual output of Florida Atlantic University

• author submissions give the repository nonexclusive rights to disseminate author works

The repository accepts the deposit of faculty and student works and provides keywords and metadata to enhance findability. Works deposited include graduate student theses and dissertations, student research posters, abstracts, presentations, capstones, Honors theses, faculty papers, preprint publications, conference proceedings, patents, technical reports and more.

Submissions to the research repository:

Submissions may be text files (.pdf), sound files (.mp3), video files (.mp4), or images (.png , .jpg, or .tif). 

Authors submitting content are required to include a copyright statement and are responsible for adhering to copyright law including the eligibility to deposit works if they have transferred or licensed their work elsewhere.