Kutztown University Research Commons

When you submit your research, you will have the opportunity to enter an abstract. 

Your Abstract should

• be about 200 words long. What does not fit in the text box on the form will not display on the screen either,
• contain buzzwords or key phrases since search engines like Google or Bing will look in the abstract during a search.

Your Keywords should

• be no more than 10 words or phrases separated by commons,
• also contain or repeat the key phrases from the abstract because keywords are even more important than the abstract in an internet search.

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of open access information and creative works. 

When you submit your work, you will be asked to choose from a menu either no license or one of the licenses detailed here:   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

The Creative Commons license works with your copyright to protect you from having your work stolen or plagiarized by someone else.

The Creative Commons licenses govern four key areas:

1. Attribution -- Requiring someone using your work to give you credit; or not.
2. Commercial use -- Allowing a person, group, or a company (e.g. a commercial publisher) to sell your work for their profit; or not
3. Derivation -- Can someone take your research or creative work and change or manipulate it into a new work that is theirs; or not
4. Share-Alike -  you can also stipulate that if someone uses your work, they must use the same license as you did for your original; or not.

To choose a license, use this link:  https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/

For more information, please jump to   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/