ABOUT CROSSWORKS
MISSION
CrossWorks is the institutional repository for the College of the Holy Cross. As such, CrossWorks serves as an online space used to collect, preserve and provide access to the intellectual, scholarly and creative work of the Holy Cross community.
DESCRIPTION
An institutional repository (IR) brings together scholarly and creative works, as well as other materials, in digital format with the aim to preserve and provide open access through a single portal. CrossWorks is the IR of the College of the Holy Cross.
To learn more about institutional repositories, please visit the Digital Commons IR research page.
CrossWorks is a hosted service offered by bepress on their Digital Commons platform. It is managed by the Holy Cross Libraries.
BENEFITS
Publications in CrossWorks are globally available to anyone with access to the Internet. Benefits include:
- Increased visibility to scholarship, including unpublished works and data sets
- Preservation and long-term access to content through a permanent link
- Showcase for faculty and student scholarship
- Visible impact through monthly download reports
- Compliance with dissemination guidelines specified by grant ot government-funded requirements
- Increase and advance global knowledge exchange
- Promote scholarly communication and equity by providing global access as openly as possible