East Carolina University students, staff members, or faculty may contribute works to The ScholarShip. Existing communities are based on the structure of University colleges, departments, and programs. Other communities will be considered on request. Contact The ScholarShip staff with these requests.
Only items authored or created by an East Carolina University faculty member, staff member, or student may be deposited. (Co-authors need not be at ECU.) Authors may deposit their own works, or designate someone else at ECU to deposit on their behalf.
The ScholarShip currently accepts a variety of materials, including theses and dissertations, articles, chapters, presentations, proceedings, artworks, performances, reports and working papers and selected collections of undergraduate works. See the FAQ's or contact The ScholarShip staff with specific questions about your materials.
Deposited items should be considered finished works. Items we do not accept at this time include course-related works (syllabi, course notes, etc.) and data sets.
Our primary goal is to make all deposits freely available across the web (access will not be limited by location). However, some items may have access limited to ECU affiliates or have access embargoed for a specific time period.
As a repository, deposited files will be maintained indefinitely at the minimal level of maintaining file integrity. However, migration to preserve functionality is not guaranteed. See our current list of acceptable file types for more details
Deposit to The ScholarShip does not change any copyright agreement. (Items in the Institutional Repository have been made available according to .....insert copyright language from bottom of each record.)
Authors may request that the ScholarShip administrator remove an item from the repository. Exceptions to this include dissertations and theses. If an item is removed, the record for the item will be preserved with a note indicating the reason for withdrawal.
Authors of dissertations and theses produced at East Carolina University can request that the embargo period they selected when they submitted their dissertation or thesis be extended. The request for an extension should be made no less than one and no more than two months before the embargo period is scheduled to expire. The request for an extension, along with a brief justification, should be made by e-mail to ALS_ETD@ecu.edu.
Or, contact the Scholarship staff with a question.