Have you been yearning for a site of your very own to store articles, images, data sets, and other types of files that you want to share with others? If so, try out a personal researcher page in the Jefferson Digital Commons.
Easy forms for adding information make upkeep simple and swift. Accounts are FREE, and you can store any file type.
What can I put on a Personal Page?
A personal page may include biographical and contact information, full-text of published works and unpublished works, your CV, and other professional, educational or research-related materials that you create. The Commons accepts teaching materials, video clips, audio files, text-based documents, images, and pretty much anything else you can wrestle into digital form.
What Does It Look Like?
A few intrepid explorers have been testing the service. You can see their pages in the Commons now.
Who Qualifies for a Personal Page?
Any Jefferson faculty member (including volunteer faculty), researcher or clinician may request a personal research page on the Commons. We regret that we cannot offer personal pages to students at this time.
Can I Link to It From My Departmental Site?
Of course! You may link to individual documents or to the entire personal site from any other site. And department sites within the Commons will link to your personal site, as well.
Plus, colleagues can subscribe to your page, so they'll receive email when you add new material. You may manage your distribution list, and get statistics about the amount of attention each deposited item receives.
Is It a Lot of Work? Who Maintains My Page?
This is YOUR page. You may ask for help from AISR staff, but because this is a personal website service, it's expected that you'll want to manage your own. Not to worry, though; AISR is here to help whenever you need it. And you may designate your administrative assistant as an editor, to make changes on your behalf. All entries are made from easy-to-use web pages, using your personal account on the Commons. No coding or design skills required.
What's the Catch?
Not so much a catch as some caveats: This service is for materials you want to share with the world, have indexed by major search engines, and generally be seen by all. Access to these files is not restricted to campus or by password. It's not intended as a private storage space.
Your page is intended for professional materials (not photos of the family dog) and it's intended to showcase work you create (not a library of articles you collect from others).
Materials that you post are subject to copyright law. If you signed away your copyright interest in published material, then you need to abide by your publishers' policies about posting. AISR staff can find out what those policies are, if you aren't sure.
At the moment we are not restricting the number of files you can load, or the size of the files. It is possible that at some point in the future we will need to establish some limits.
And yes, it really is free. No charges to the department & no charges to you for your account, for space used, or for help from AISR's Commons support group.
Get Me One of Those!
To request a page or to ask more questions, please contact Ann Koopman, the Commons administrator, at 215-503-0441 or Ann.Koopman@jefferson.edu. Once your page is enabled, you will be able to access it yourself at any time.
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