About Digital Commons@PVAMU

A cloud-based Institutional Repository platform that will empower Students, Staff, and faculty members at Prairie View A&M University to showcase their expertise, research, and scholarship. These platforms offer the following services:

(a) Faculty & Staff Gallery. Showcases PVAMU staff and faculty members’ scholarly output. It is basically the staff or faculty member’s scholarly page where they can post their research publications, the research they are currently working on, etc.

(a) Graduate Students Gallery . Showcases PVAMU graduate students’ scholarly output. It is basically the graduate students scholarly page where they can post their research publications, the research they are currently working on, etc.

(b) Theses, Dissertations, & Capstone Projects. This is a collection of theses, dissertations and capstone projects produced at PVAMU from 1939 to the present.

(c) Open Access Journals. These will help PVAMU to eliminate expensive printing costs and distribution costs of the print journals it produces, and increase worldwide usability of articles published in the open access journals that PVAMU publishes. Among the journals that will be hosted are the Student Research Journal that is produced by the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, Pursue: Undergraduate Research Journal, and Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal.

(d) Open Education Resources (OER). This will be a collection of all Openstax (OER) in the form of preexisting textbooks or remixed by professors into a unique collection designed specifically for their classes.

(e) Archives. This is a collection that includes PVAMU Yearbooks, paintings, posters, newspapers, and catalogs, among other archival collections.

(f) All Collections. This will be a collection of Research data submitted to the repository after completion of research projects. This data is contributed to the repository by individual researchers.

(g) Conferences. An intuitive tool to help in the planning and promoting of conferences and events.

To learn more about Digital Commons@PVAMU (Institutional Repository), see our Authors FAQ for common questions about this Institutional Repository. Learn more about Author Rights for resources submitted to this Institutional Repository.