Digital Horizons: A Plains Media Resource
Digital Horizons is an online treasure house of thousands of images, documents, video, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today. Established in 2007 by a consortium including: Concordia College Archives, Moorhead, Minn.; Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D.; Prairie Public, Fargo, N.D.; and State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, N.D.

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NDSU Institutional Repository, Digital Commons
Digital Commons at NDSU is an institutional repository provided by the NDSU Libraries that collects, preserves, and distributes digital material located at or produced by the NDSU community. Repositories are important tools for preserving an organization’s legacy; they facilitate digital preservation and scholarly communication.

Goal of the Institutional Repository at NDSU
Digital Commons at NDSU is updated regularly, and new works are added to collections on a continuous basis. Our mission is to foster open access to research output, from North Dakota State University in a variety of document types and file formats.

Defining an Institutional Repository (IR):
An institutional repository (IR) is a long-term digital archive containing scholarly works produced by the members of a particular institution. IRs amass and maintain intellectual output, including published materials such as journal articles and book chapters, data sets, grey literature, theses and dissertations, as well as other academic endeavors. An institutional repository offers open access to scholarly research from the institution to anyone in the world.

The North Dakota State University has established its institutional repository using DSpace. DSpace, developed by MIT and Hewlett-Packard, is an open-source solution for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works.