Deep Blue Documents Institutional Repository - for Students

Deep Blue Documents is one of U-M's institutional repositories that serves as a means for the U-M community to make their work openly accessible. Deep Blue Documents focuses on hosting and preserving human-readable materials produced through research, teaching, or scholarship.

Watch our video on Deep Blue Documents to learn about how they enable you to ensure your scholarship is discovered, cited, and preserved.

Deposits typically meet the following characteristics:

• The work must be produced or sponsored by U-M faculty, staff, students, or U-M academic and administrative research units with which our scholars are affiliated.
• The work must be a completed version, ready for distribution.
• The work must of a high enough quality and substantial enough contribution to add to the field of research or practice it concerns.
• The author/owner must be willing and able to grant U-M the non-exclusive right to preserve and distribute the work via Deep Blue Documents. The author/owner retains their copyright. 
  • *Note: this most often comes up with articles, book chapters, or other published materials where the author may have signed an agreement relinquishing their rights to redistribute the material.

Examples of deposits include:

• Articles
• Chapters
• Books
• Dissertations and theses
• Posters and conference presentations
• Degree recital recordings 
• Other audio or visual recordings, syllabi, and supplementary materials

* (If you are interested in preserving and sharing your research data, Deep Blue Data provides access to digital research data that were developed or used in the support of research activities at U-M. Deep Blue Data accepts research data from all disciplines, as long as the data is complete, ethical, and openly distributable–see our About/Help pages on the site or reach out via our Data Contact Form regarding any questions or for more information.)