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Digital Commons @ CIIS is the online research repository of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). It is a service of the CIIS libraries and hosts research and scholarly output that has been selected and deposited by individual university departments and centers on campus. You can use it to browse collections, disciplines, and authors, or to search the repository directly.
Who runs it and what it contains
The repository is operated as a library service of CIIS. Its content is not a general web archive; the materials included are chosen and deposited by the university's departments and centers. That means the scope reflects the research priorities of those units rather than a single central editorial team.
The site organizes material in several ways:
- Research unit, center, or department — browse by the campus unit that deposited the work
- Collections — grouped sets of scholarship
- Disciplines — subject-based browsing
- Authors — browse by contributor
- Featured Publications — highlighted selections
How it fits into the wider Digital Commons Network
The repository is part of the Digital Commons Network, a larger collection of institutional repositories. From the CIIS site you can move into the Network's discipline areas, which include:
| Network discipline area | Examples |
|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities | — |
| Social and Behavioral Sciences | — |
| Education | — |
| Business | — |
| Law | — |
| Life Sciences | — |
| Medicine and Health Sciences | — |
| Physical Sciences and Mathematics | — |
| Engineering | — |
| Architecture | — |
This matters if your search at CIIS comes up thin: the same platform lets you widen the search across all repositories in the Network.
What you can do on the site
The homepage offers a few practical entry points:
- Search — enter terms and choose whether to search in this repository or across all repositories; an Advanced Search option is also available
- Browse — by collections, disciplines, or authors
- At a Glance — top 10 downloads, all-time downloads, recent additions, the 20 most recent additions, and activity by year
- Paper of the Day — a rotating featured item (for example, Path to Utopia by Leila Kincaid appears as a featured paper)
- Author Corner — an Author FAQ and a Submit Research link for contributors
- Notify me — email or RSS alerts for new content
Who it is for
- Researchers and students looking for CIIS-affiliated scholarship, or wanting to browse by discipline or author
- CIIS authors who want to deposit work; the Author Corner's Submit Research page is the starting point, and the Author FAQ covers common questions
- Visitors tracking new output who want email or RSS notifications
Practical notes
Search behavior depends on the context you select: searching "in this repository" limits results to CIIS deposits, while "across all repositories" draws on the broader Digital Commons Network. If a known CIIS paper does not appear, try the wider context before assuming it is absent. Access terms, login requirements, and any submission policies are not specified on the homepage, so check the About, FAQ, and Author FAQ pages for the current rules before relying on them.