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Weill Cornell eCommons is a service of the Weill Cornell Medical (WCM) Library that provides long-term access to a broad range of WCM-related digital content of enduring value. By making your dissertation available in eCommons, you can take advantage of the following:
- Increased visibility: Making your work accessible via eCommons will facilitate discovery (in Google Scholar, for example) and citation.
- Persistent links: eCommons technology ensures a stable online location (URL) for your work, allowing reliable access to your work over time. More information on persistent links.
- Preservation: Cornell University Library is a world leader in developing standards and best practices for digital archiving and preservation. The Library is committed to preserving your work in eCommons for the long term, exactly as you deposit it. More information on preservation.
- Comprehensiveness: eCommons supports a variety of formats, and we encourage you to deposit not just the finished work, but also related materials (including data, images, audio and video files, etc.). Beyond what a traditional journal can accommodate, eCommons allows you to create a "director's cut" that gives context to your work and promotes further scholarship.
- Institutional context: WCM is a destination for the best researchers and scholars, and eCommons places content in the larger context of the WCM environment, side-by-side with the scholarly and artistic contributions of colleagues, students, and others in the WCM Community.
You don't have to take any additional steps to upload your dissertation. eCommons staff will use the same file and metadata you supplied when submitting to ProQuest. If we have any questions, we will reach out to you. Please don't hesitate with any questions at
WCM-IR@med.cornell.edu