Elon, North Carolina, and Oslo, Norway, October 2, 2026. Elon University has gone live on TIND DA, TIND IR, and TIND RDM, replacing CONTENTdm and launching the university's first institutional and data repository. Together, these showcase the library's digital archives and special collections alongside the university’s scholarly works, teaching materials, and research data, all on a single platform.
Photo: Elon University.
"TIND gives us a way to make more of Elon's work visible, discoverable, and enduring. It also aligns closely with our university's emphasis on engaged and experiential learning."
— Brian Mathews, Dean of Libraries, Elon University
Elon migrated nearly 4,400 records and 7,400 files from CONTENTdm. During migration, over 1,500 PDFs were OCR’d to enable full-text search. Oral history recordings were migrated with human-made transcripts, which were also indexed as full-text to be made searchable alongside the audio and video recordings.
Their digital archives are now discoverable on the same TIND platform as Elon’s multidisciplinary institutional repository of research output and data. On the repository side, Elon’s student work, research output, conference works, research data, code, software and more can be deposited by anyone affiliated to Elon University. TIND indexes these for Google Scholar and can assign DOIs for stable, citable links. Authors can choose Creative Commons licenses, set embargoes, or limit access to the Elon community, and each contributor gets an Author Profile that gathers their work in one place to increase visibility across the campus and the public.