CurateND, Notre Dame’s institutional repository, offers new features and a streamlined user experience to optimize discovery and access to the University’s research output.

The Hesburgh Libraries initially launched CurateND in February 2015. Since then, it has provided a central location for the Notre Dame community to showcase research and related materials for public search and access. The newly launched platform is well-timed and aligned with Notre Dame’s new Strategic Framework that emphasizes “thinking and acting as one institution in order to make the most meaningful contributions to questions of national and international concern.” CurateND, along with other disciplinary repositories, helps to make research output findable and accessible, further illuminating the University’s global research mission.

While the repository looks different, it maintains much of the same functionality as the original. The new platform continues to offer features that enable researchers to manage deposits, create unique profiles, describe materials, fulfill data management and sharing mandates, upload multiple formats, create digital object identifiers (DOIs) and set permissions and embargo periods.

The new CurateND platform also features a more streamlined user experience, robust functionality and improved search engine interoperability. In addition, deposits are now mediated by our professional team to ensure your research outputs are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). Deposited materials are managed by data curators at the Hesburgh Libraries.

CurateND provides a strong digital infrastructure for presenting research publications (including preprints) and associated data sets; white papers, working papers, and technical reports; conference presentations; dissertations, masters and doctoral theses, and other works so they can be shared and discovered through an interconnected digital community. This elevates the efforts of faculty, students, departments, centers and institutes while strengthening Notre Dame’s impact on the global scholarly community.

Any person with a valid University NetID can log in to curate.nd.edu to create an account. Account holders can create item records, deposit materials, add item-level metadata and control access levels (Public, Embargo, University of Notre Dame, or Private) for both the deposit record and the material itself. CurateND still provides persistent Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), allowing users to create a persistent online presence for their research and scholarly contributions, which can be added as portfolios grow.

CurateND questions and training
Schedule a 30-minute one-on-one training/Q&A session with Kate Blalack, digital repositories librarian (kblalack@nd.edu) or attend an upcoming campus workshop.

“Introduction to CurateND — ND's Institutional Repository”
April 17, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 220 Hesburgh Library