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 the Advancement of Digital Scholarship.

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

Share Small Datasets Through K-REx

Form - Submit Your Dataset to K-REx

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 a Published Article

For work that is already published, use the app below.

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

Form - Submit Your Work to K-REx

K-REx is inclusive, and can serve as a digital home for a wide variety of creative, administrative, and scholarly work created by the K-State Community including:

Journal articles
Conference papers
Reports
Images
Presentations
Videos
Data (Up to 2GB)
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
Spreadsheet(s) - CSV (*.csv, comma separated value)
Audio - MP3 (*.mp3) and/or WAV (*.wav)
Video, Video and Audio - MP4 (*.mp4)
Still images - TIFF (*.tif), PNG (*.png), and/or JPEG/JFIF (*.jpg)