How to Add Works to K-State's Digital Repository, K-REx

This guide helps members of the K-State community understand how to add RSCAD (Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities, and Discovery) works to the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx), K-State’s digital institutional repository.

Library Research Guide

Contact

General and Technical Help

Questions regarding the institutional repository (K-REx) may be sent to the K-State Libraries' Scholarly Communication team in the Center for Scholarly Publishing.

Email: cads@ksu.edu

ETDR Help

Visit the ETDR Help and contact page to find out how best to request help.

Submit Your ETDR (Electronic Thesis, Dissertation, or Report)

Ready to submit your ETDR to K-REx? Go the Graduate School's Submit Your ETDR to K-REx page to find a step-by-step walkthrough.

Share Your Research Data through K-REx

Contact the K-State Libraries' Research Data Management (RDM) Interest Group for assistance or questions about sharing your data.

Email - Libraries' Research Data Management (RDM) Interest Group

README File Template for Depositing Data
Use this template to include information about your dataset(s). Information about the data's title, authors, files, description, methodology, and/or date(s) should be included.

Are You Ready to Share Your Work?

Check Copyright Permissions & How You Can Share

If you know your permissions or gotten help figuring out your permissions, then it is time to share. On this page there are 4 methods for submitting work to K-REx. Choose the one that fits the type of work you want to share.

Share Your Article, Conference Paper, Presentation, Poster, and Other Works

Share Your Work(s) — Log in and Open K-REx Submission Form

Describing Your Submission to K-REx

Required

Author(s) (Enter the names of all authors of this item (Family name, Given names Middle initial.))
Title (Enter the main title of the item.)
Date (Please give the date of public distribution or previous publication.)
Type (Select the type of content of the item. If there are multiple items, select the type that best describes the content of the main item.)

Preferred, but Optional

Abstract
Subject Keywords (Press Enter on the keyboard following each keyword or phrase.)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) (Enter the DOI associated with the item, if applicable)

Content included in K-REx

Current faculty, staff, students or community partners of Kansas State University are encouraged to share their Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities, and Discovery (RSCAD) works through K-REx. Examples of what can be shared include:

Documents, such as published articles, preprints, author's accepted manuscripts, working papers, technical reports or conference papers.
Presentation slides or posters.
Theses, dissertations or reports.
Learning objects.
Data sets. (File Sizes Up to 2GB)
Computer programs.
Visualizations, simulations and other models.
Multimedia publications.
Books.
Images.
Audio files.
Video files.
Web pages.
Other material that might be important to scholars or researchers.

By submitting to the K-State Research Exchange, submitters accept the terms of K-State's Non-Exclusive Distribution License.

Recommended File Types

The following are the recommended file types for works being submitted to K-REx.

Text, including presentation slides - PDF (*.pdf, portable document format) or TXT (*.txt, text file)
Spreadsheet(s) - CSV (*.csv, comma separated value) or Tab Delimited (*txt)
Audio - MP3 (*.mp3) and/or WAV (*.wav)
Video, Video and Audio - MP4 (*.mp4)
Still images - TIFF (*.tif), PNG (*.png), and/or JPEG/JFIF (*.jpg)