Submission guidelines

MARS digital repository accepts George Mason affiliated scholarship that the depositor has the right to share in a publicly accessible, open-access repository. During submission, you will be asked to grant the libraries a non-exclusive right to distribute your work. If your submission requires access restriction, please contact us at digicoll@gmu.edu before submitting.

To provide enduring access to your work, we prioritize preservation formats.

For a text document, please submit a PDF document. If you submit a Word document, we will convert the file to PDF for you before depositing.

For PowerPoint and other slide presentations, please convert to PDF. If there are features such as animations that require the original presentation format, you are welcome to include the original file as well as a PDF.

For posters, please submit a PDF.

Preferred formats for media content include:

We accept archived websites as WACZ or WARC files. Please contact us at digicoll@gmu.edu if you need help archiving your website.

Submitting Data

If you wish to include tabular data (CSV, Excel, R, SPSS, Stata, etc.), GIS files, software code, or other datasets, please visit MARS Dataverse repository or see this page for more details. For questions about data submissions, please email Data & Digital Scholarship Services at datahelp@gmu.edu or review the Data Deposit Checklist.

How to submit to MARS Digital Repository

To submit your scholarship to MARS, please log in with your GMU account and click on the Submit tab on the top menu. Questions? Please email digicoll@gmu.edu.