Contribute
Become a contributor and share your work with the manufacturingHUB community! Contributing content is easy. Our step-by-step forms will guide you through the process.
Shared infrastructure
The manufacturingHUB is shared infrastructure to help individuals in the community collaborate and disseminate the results of their work. Individuals, research groups, and even major research centers can disseminate their work by uploading it to the manufacturingHUB.
Contribute content
There are several different types of content hosted on the manufacturingHUB. The following links tell you how to prepare and submit materials for each type:
Present your work
Your contributions will become part of the manufacturingHUB and your colleagues and general manufacturingHUB users will be able to locate them there.
Intellectual Property Considerations
All materials contributed must have clearly defined rights and privileges. Online presentations and instructional material are normally licensed under Creative Commons 2.5. Read more details about our licensing policies.
Questions about contributing?
We hope that our self-service upload process is intuitive and easy to use. If you encounter any problems during the upload process or need assistance of any kind, please file a trouble report.
What can I contribute?
Tools
A simulation tool is software that allows users to run a specific type of calculation. Most of these tools are built with our Rappture toolkit, so they have a consistent, user-friendly interface.
Online Presentations
An Online Presentation can be a research seminar, a graduate or undergraduate level seminar, or lectures for a complete class. An online presentation consists of an abstract, short bio about the author, presentation slides (PDF, PPT, etc.) as well as a voiced presentation (Macromedia Breeze).
Teaching Materials
Teaching Materials are supplementary materials that don't quite fit into any of the previous categories, such as homework assignments, study notes, guides, etc.
Animations
An animation is a short (usually Flash-based) video that illustrates a concept. Browse through available animations in our resources section.
Publications
A Publication is a paper you have written that has been published in some manner. The topic of the paper should be relevant to the community and may even include references from the manufacturingHUB.
NOTE: Please don't upload any publication if the copyright is owned by a publisher without explicit permission from the publisher. However, if you have a preprint or an unpublished work, it can be uploaded here to help explain the details for a related tool, or as a reference for an online lecture.
Downloads
A download is a type of resource that users can download and use on their own computer. It could be source code for a tool you developed or a set of data files.
Submissions in progress:
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What's this?
Once you've started a new contribution, you can proceed at your leisure. Stop half-way through and watch a presentation, go to lunch, even close the browser and come back a different day! Your contribution will be waiting just as you left it, ready to continue at any time.