The heart of the Rutgers Community Repository (RUcore) is the digital collections that can be searched and used by researchers and students at Rutgers and around the world.

RUcore's mission is to maintain the significant intellectual property of Rutgers University, particularly the unique information created by Rutgers University faculty, graduate students and publishers as part of the university's twin mission to promote research and learning.

RUcore is also intended to preserve and make available the rich primary source materials in the libraries' Special Collections and University Archives. Many of these resources represent significant New Jerseyana in areas such as New Jersey history, labor materials and the papers of prominent New Jersey statesmen and politicians.

Another significant collection that will be highlighted in RUcore is the Institute for Jazz Studies collection, one of the world's premiere collections of correspondence, papers, oral histories, memorabilia and private jazz collections.

RUcore's three-year collection development strategy is focusing on the following strategic areas:

• Primary research products that are important for furthering strategic research and are difficult to find and utilize, such as data sets, lab notes, multimedia research evidence, and grant reports.
• Resources created and maintained by Rutgers University administrative units and publishers, particularly websites, theses and dissertations, and administrative reports and publications that have research and historical value beyond the publishing unit.
• Primary source materials owned by Rutgers University Libraries, particularly unique resources that cannot be found anywhere else and collections of scholarly significance from Special Collections and University Archives and the Institute of Jazz Studies at the Dana Library at the Rutgers University Newark campus.

Do you have a research project or primary source collection that fits within the three-year strategic plan? RUcore will insure that your materials are available for your reuse and for the use of scholars anywhere-today and fifty years from now.

RUcore will be accepting faculty submissions in Spring 2007. Contact us to learn more.

RUcore is currently developing an electronic theses and dissertations application and collection, RUetd, with the Graduate School – New Brunswick and the New Jersey Digital Highway statewide cultural heritage initiative.