Constellation is Dominican's institutional repository - our online, open access collection of university scholarship. It includes faculty journal articles, GSLIS PhD dissertations, Caritas Veritas Symposium proceedings, and more. Constellation is a collaborative repository that also serves other liberal arts colleges in the Chicago area.
Here’s how Constellation can benefit you, Dominican, and other researchers and students in your field:
• Increased visibility
Constellation is open access, meaning anyone can access its contents. No one needs a subscription or a password, and submissions are included in Google or other search engine results. Therefore, the likelihood that your work will be discovered by others is increased, potentially leading to collaborative research, higher citation rates, grant funding, job prospects and/or graduate school acceptance.
• Knowledge sharing
Since Constellation is open access, other researchers can readily access your work, potentially leading to citation and to collaboration across and beyond the University. The repository can be a key part of the scholarly communication and publication processes.
• Continual and perpetual access to your work
Researchers no longer need to track you down to get a copy of your work. They, and you, can access your work at any time from any place.
• Centralized location of University scholarship
The online repository provides a convenient, single location to which researchers can refer.
• Preservation
In addition to your personal copies of your work, the University will keep permanent digital copies in Constellation or its successor technology.
Many publishers allow you to publish with them and deposit a copy of your work in Constellation. Always read your publisher's agreement before signing so you know what rights you keep. You may negotiate with publishers who do not allow deposits in an institutional repository.
See the Author Rights section of this guide for more information on author rights and publishers.
• Future Publication
Some, but not all, publishers accept works that have been made available through Constellation. You should always check the policies of potential publishers to ensure that items deposited in Constellation can be published later. This applies to student work, as well. To find publishers that allow you deposit your work in Constellation, use SHERPA/RoMEO.
• Third Party Copyrighted Material
If your work includes materials, including images, that are not original works by you, you may need to secure permission from the copyright owner to include those materials in your work in Constellation.
