Digital Resource Commons : The OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons is a network of centrally hosted institutional repositories featuring local branding, remote submission and administration, and federated searching. The DRC enables Ohio colleges and universities to save, discover and share all types and formats of digital materials. Available now:

• Akron Art Museum repository
• Bowling Green State University repository: Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
• Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives
• Marietta College repository: Manuscripts and Documents of the Ohio Company of Associates
• Southern State Community College repository: American Indian Heritage Month posters
• University of Toledo repository: Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections
• Wright State University repository

The DRC leverages statewide economies of scale and empowers institutions to rapidly publish and access the wealth of research, historic and creative materials produced by Ohio's scholarly communities. Members can create, use, and manage content stored on our servers without redundant and costly local investments. All participants reap the benefits of locally-created content including audio, video, images and text.

The system is designed to make content submission easy, and provides local administrators with the ability to delegate the submission process to instructors across their entire campus. Contributors can brand content to a particular department or college, while still retaining the ability to search across all communities and institutions in the repository. To the end user it appears to be a single site hosted on your institution's own servers.

More information. Or e-mail the OhioLINK DRC team drcteam@ohiolink.edu.