The Knowledge Bank is a permanent archive, meaning projects should be in their absolute final form before they are submitted. As the instructions state, “All items submitted remain as is at the time of submission, just as books once published remain in the form in which they were printed. PDF files once placed in the Knowledge Bank will not be modified.” Here are the steps for Knowledge Bank submission:
- Students should set up their account through the Knowledge Bank within the final semester of their final year. Instructions to assist with the use of the Knowledge Bank can be found on the library’s website.
- Students can find DNP projects currently in the Knowledge Bank here.
- Once the student has successfully defended their project and the Chair and committee have given final approval to the document, the student should submit the final approved document in Word (.doc/.docx) to Gerene Bauldoff (Knowledge Bank Faculty Liaison) via email to bauldoff.1@osu.edu.
- The Faculty Liaison will review the document for correct formatting, If there are major issues, the document will be send it back to the student and the advisor.
- Please submit the document in Word to permit MINOR formatting changes (pagination, margins, page breaks, etc). Content will not be edited to avoid overstepping the chair or the committee.
- Once the document has been reviewed and approved, it will be converted to the required PDF.
- The PDF document will be emailed back to the student, their Committee Chair and Maureen Walsh at the Knowledge Bank to provide notification that it has been approved for upload.
- The student will then take the approved PDF and submit that to the knowledge bank for upload.
- Students submit their project to the Knowledge Bank, using the “Submission Guidelines” which are linked to from the instructions The KB does a final review then it goes “live” in the Knowledge Bank. The KB Staff will provide the student a permanent stable URL to their project in the KB.
- The students are permitted to request an “embargo” of 1, 3, or 5 This allows them to delay public access to their project, during which time the public can see that it exists, but access to full text will not be available. When the embargo period is over, the KB staff update the item to make it publicly accessible.