JCKL Collection Development / Collection Management and Maintenance

JCKL Digital is the institutional repository of the University of Central Missouri. It contains scholarly work produced all or in part by UCM faculty, staff, and students, as well as departmental research publications.

UCM researchers who add their scholarly work to JCKL Digital increase their visibility and impact by making their scholarship openly available to a global audience, as well as ensuring the long-term preservation of the materials. Our team is ready to assist with depositing materials into the repository, allowing you to focus on teaching, service, and research.

If you have questions about adding materials to JCKL Digital or any other questions about the repository, please contact Nate Beyerink, Assessment and Acquisitions Librarian, at beyerink@ucmo.edu.

We have services to help UCM scholars and departments deposit materials in JCKL Digital: 

• To make this process as easy as possible, we will deposit eligible materials into JCKL Digital on your behalf. See Depositing Materials in JCKL Digital for specific information about how you can share materials in the repository.
• Give presentations for departmental or research groups about how their work can be made available to a worldwide audience in JCKL Digital.

Open Access
JCKL Digital strives to provide open and public access to all content in the repository. For exceptions, see Embargoes and Delayed Access.

Permanent Links
All items in JCKL Digital are assigned stable URLs that should never change and can be used whenever the work is cited.

Works created after April 2025 are required to incorporate accessibility features in accordance with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. For older materials, an accessible version of the scholarly materials in JCKL Digital will be made available upon request. Please contact us to request that the document be made available in an accessible format.

Preservation
JCKL uses standard data management practices to protect items stored in JCKL Digital. The repository is backed up regularly and is kept secure against deletion or unauthorized modification.

Access
JCKL ensures that items deposited in JCKL Digital will remain retrievable from the repository in the future.

Preferred file formats
Since file formats change and evolve over time, older file formats in JCKL Digital records may not be able to be read by modern software. In general, files created with open or non-proprietary software offer the greatest hopes for long-term usability. More information regarding compatible file formats is available on the Depositing Materials in JCKL Digital page.

If you need assistance in choosing the appropriate file formats for your content or data so that they can be used in the long term, please contact us.

Materials in JCKL Digital reflect the attitudes of the people, period, or context in which they were created. Certain images, words, terms, or descriptions may be offensive, culturally insensitive, or considered inappropriate today. These items do not represent the views of the James C. Kirkpatrick Library or the University of Central Missouri.

If you intend to use JCKL Digital as a repository for your data, you can indicate this in the Data Management Plan for the project. Here is some sample text about JCKL Digital that you can adapt as needed:

Launched in 2010, JCKL Digital is the online institutional repository of the University of Central Missouri, containing scholarly work created by faculty, staff, and students.

• Scholarly works in JCKL Digital are made publicly available for anyone to read worldwide. Items in JCKL Digital remain the property of the copyright holder(s) and any rights held by the copyright holder (whether the author or publisher) before depositing the work in JCKL Digital remain unchanged by the non-exclusive license granted to JCKL Digital to distribute the works.
• All items in JCKL Digital are assigned permanent URLs that can be used whenever the work is cited.
• JCKL Digital provides persistent and reliable access to items in the repository and ensures their long-term preservation with the ExLibris/Alma service.
• JCKL Digital adheres to standards that meet the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) that allows harvesting of the article metadata by other systems.

This guide was modeled after the About KU ScholarWorks created by Marianne Reed, Digital Publishing & Repository Manager, at KU Libraries, and was created with the authors’ permission.