St. Mary's University Digital Repository

Purpose:

The purpose of the digital repository, the Digital Commons at St. Mary's University, is to promote the scholarship of St. Mary’s University in a free and open access environment for enhanced discovery and research value. The URL is commons.stmarytx.edu.

Availability:

Materials in the repository are free and openly accessible to the general public.

Depositors & Contributors:

Anyone affiliated with the university can contribute, including faculty, staff, undergraduate, graduate, and law students.

Organization:

Collections are organized by college/school, center, and/or university organization. Individual departments are generally listed within these collections. There are also special sections devoted to student scholarship. In most cases, contributors will send material to the campus library with which they are aligned, either the academic Louis J. Blume Library or the Sarita Kenedy East Law Library.

Citation:

Materials accessed in the repository must be cited if published and/or distributed. Researchers should consult an appropriate style guide for adherence to specific guidelines.

Disclaimers:

Any researcher and user of materials agrees to indemnify and hold harmless St. Mary’s University, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all suits, claims, actions, and expenses arising out of the use and reuse of materials provided by the repository. St. Mary’s University makes no representation of content linked to other websites or third-party information. St. Mary’s University cannot be held responsible for errors and omissions, or damage caused by access or non-access to the repository.

To learn more about our institutional repository policies, please visit Blume Library Policy Library.