Using Figshare as an Electronic Theses and Dissertation Repository

The Graduate School at Purdue University has launched HammerRR - the Electronic Theses and Dissertation Repository of the Graduate School. HammerRR is powered by figshare. Figshare as a solution was evaluated by a project team headed up by Ashlee Messersmith, Manager, Theses & Dissertations Office, and Purdue Graduate School, and Jamie Mohler, Associate Dean of the Purdue Graduate School.

HammerRR is just one example of how the figshare managed repository infrastructure can be implemented quickly to serve next-generation digital repository needs. These needs include support for publication of dissertations in the form of a music score, artwork portfolios, 3D models being submitted as theses, and GIS maps being submitted as part of a thesis project.

The Graduate School at Purdue University selected figshare as a managed service with 100 terabytes of Amazon AWS storage provided as part of the package.