Belmont Digital Repository Submission Guide: Home

If you are submitting your abstract for BURS or SURS, please follow the instructions linked here.

To submit your thesis to the Belmont Digital Repositry

1. Go to the Belmont Digital Repository
2. Click My Account and sign in with your MyBelmont credentials
3. From the BDR homepage, click Submit Research on the lefthand side under Resources
4. Choose your area of study
5. Read the Submission Agreement and ensure you have your thesis and supplementary materials ready to submit (including your signed copy of the university's Distribution Agreement)
6. Check Agree and click Continue
7. Fill in the appropriate metadata
   1. Associating your email address with your project can facilitate scholarly communications between you and other members of your field of study; however, if you do not want your email to be public, you may leave it off. if you do leave it off, however, Bepress will not be able to send you statistics for your thesis.
   2. Type in Belmont University as your Institution
   3. an Abstract (or some facsimile thereof) is required
   4. You may choose as few or as many Disciplines as you desire. Your thesis gets pushed into other subject-specific repositories according to its discipline(s).
   5. If you DO NOT WANT YOUR THESIS PUBLICLY VIEWABLE ONLINE please select the Metadata Only Doctype dropdown. This will ensure Belmont gets your thesis, but no one will be able to view your project. A record of your project will be public and searchable, but, again, your project itself will be hidden.
   6. You may leave Recommended Citation blank
8. Click Upload File from your computer and select your thesis file
9. Check the Additional Files box
10. At the Upload Supplemental Content screen, click Browse and upload any supplemental files e.g. images, graphs, videos, etc. that you would like associated with your project.
    1. If you DO NOT WANT THESE FILES PUBLICLY VIEWABLE ONLINE simply uncheck the Show box
11. At the Upload Supplemental Content screen ATTACH YOUR SIGNED DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
12. Uncheck the Show box next to your signed agreement
13. Click Continue, and that's it!

To make any revisions:

1. Go to the BDR homepage and click My Account
2. Click the title of your thesis
3. This will take you to the revisions screen

If you need further assistance, please contact Chuck Hodgin.

1. Go to the Belmont Digital Repository
2. Click My Account and sign in with your MyBelmont credentials
3. Fom the BDR homepage, click Submit Research on the lefthand side under Resources
4. Under the Special Events heading, choose BURS or SURS
5. Read the Submission Agreement and ensure you have your abstract ready to submit
   1. If you intend to submit your full manuscript or presentation, you will need to submit your signed copy of the university's Distribution Agreement either now or when you append your file to this abstract submission.
6. Check Agree and click Continue
7. Fill in the appropriate metadata
   1. Associating your email address with your project can facilitate scholarly communications between you and other members of your field of study; however, if you do not want your email to be public, you may leave it off. if you do leave it off, however, Bepress will not be able to send you statistics for your thesis.
   2. Type in Belmont University as your Institution
   3. Filling in the Abstract field is required
   4. You may choose as few or as many Disciplines as you desire. Your thesis gets pushed into other subject-specific repositories according to its discipline(s).
8. As long as you fill in the Abstract field, you can complete your submission.
   1. You may choose to upload your Abstract as a PDF file or a Video if you wish, but you must also paste its text into the Abstract text field.
9. If you want to add your Distribution Agreement at this stage, check the Additional Files box.
10. Click Submit
11. If you checked the Additional Files box, you will be taken to a screen in which you will upload your Distribution Agreement.
12. Browse, select your signed agreement file, and uncheck the box marked Show
13. Click Submit
14. We will contact your Faculty Advisor to ensure they do not require any additions or alterations to your abstract submission, so you may be contacted by either the library or your Faculty Advisor and asked to revise your submission.

To make any revisions:

1. Go to the BDR homepage and click My Account
2. Click the title of your submission
3. This will take you to the revisions screen
4. Once the deadline for submissions has past, you will be limited in the edits you will be able to make yourself.
5. If you wish to attach your full manuscript or presentation after the submission deadline, you will need to send it to Chuck Hodgin..

If you need further assistance with any phase of this process, please contact Chuck Hodgin.