About RShare
RShare is Toronto Metropolitan University’s institutional repository and research collaboration platform for scholarly outputs produced by members of the Toronto Metropolitan University community and their collaborators. This repository disseminates and preserves the scholarly record of the university and makes it available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. It is also the home of the University’s online collection of PhD dissertations and Masters theses.
RShare supports over 300 different file types (text, images, video, audio, 3D models) and allows for the viewing of these files within the browser. RShare hosts articles, theses, dissertations, technical reports, working papers, conference papers, and videos which can be made openly available to anyone on the web.
Researchers who deposit in RShare dramatically increase the discoverability of their work, and all posts stringently comply with funder and publisher requirements. Traditional metrics such as views and downloads along with Altmetrics (social media reach) are available for all items.
A Note on Datasets
While some historical datasets remain stored in RShare, our current policy is to store all future data deposits in Toronto Metropolitan University Dataverse. RShare will continue to accept SRC outputs, like articles, Open Educational Resources, Open Access books, and creative items, but data deposit is strictly limited to TMU Dataverse.
TMU Dataverse is part of Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, which is a bilingual, multidisciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada. Datasets in TMU Dataverse are assigned a digital object identifier (DOI), are widely discoverable and receive monthly integrity checks in combination with safe storage to protect against data loss and corruption.
For more information on Research Data Management processes, please contact Nora Mulvaney at nmulvaney@torontomu.ca.
Mission
RShare provides access to TMU research for our community and the world. The Library RShare platform enables knowledge mobilisation by gathering, organising, highlighting and disseminating TMU’s creative and scholarly research output.
Goals
- Promote Equitable Access
- Celebrate TMU’s research excellence
- Enable Knowledge Mobilisation
- Increase Research Impact
- Improve Discoverability