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FAU Digital Library

This guide provides an overview of the FAU Digital Collections.

Welcome!


The FAU Digital Library digitizes, collects, and disseminates the scholarly research and creative works of Florida Atlantic University faculty, researchers, and students in an open access repository. This allows a global audience to access a wide array of FAU digital scholarship. It also allows FAU Libraries to showcase digitized unique and rare materials from its Special Collections. The FAU Digital Library mission is to create and provide access to significant FAU digital scholarship and resources for the benefit of a wider audience in support of the University's educational mission. 

Create and Share

The Florida Atlantic University Digital Library is a full-text searchable digital repository of the research and creative scholarship of the FAU students, faculty, and staff.  The repository: 
  • Promotes scholarly communication through open access and increases the citation impact of research
  • Offers permanent URLs to collections enabling users to access, share, and link to online research
  • Showcases and brands FAU academic excellence to researchers, students, and grant funding institutions

The FAU Libraries' research repository accepts contributions of scholarly and creative works from FAU faculty, students, and staff in multiple formats.  Including: text, audio, and video files. If your work is published elsewhere please check with the publisher agreement for restrictions on depositing your work with the institutional repository. If you are about to publish your work please request an addendum to make sure that you may self-archive a copy. To contribute scholarly material contact digital@fau.edu

FAU Digital Library

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Digital Library
Contact:
FAU Digital Library
S.E. Wimberly Library
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Last updated on Oct 7, 2022 3:12 PM