Elizabeth City, NC and Oslo -- 20 March 2026. Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) has selected TIND Institutional Repository (TIND IR) to manage and showcase its scholarly and creative output. Migrating from the NC DOCKS consortium, ECSU gains greater institutional autonomy, comprehensive support, and modern multimedia capabilities.

TIND IR's ability to transcode and stream high-quality audio and video files directly in the browser ensures that creative works are accessible and preserved alongside traditional text-based scholarship.

"Moving away from a shared consortium model to TIND IR allows us to establish an independent repository that we truly own and control, giving us the autonomy to uniquely highlight the scholarship and creative works of the university," said Cynthia Wise, Director of Library Services at ECSU.

The transition also modernizes operations, replacing a manual submission process with a streamlined self-submission workflow, enabling faculty and students to deposit works directly, while librarians manage approvals and revisions through an efficient backend dashboard. Additionally, ECSU highlighted TIND's batch metadata editing tools as a "life-saving" asset. By allowing the team to fix records in bulk via spreadsheets, TIND has significantly enhanced the discoverability of the university's existing collection.

About Elizabeth City State University

Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina System and a public historically Black university founded in 1891. With a student body of about 2,500, ECSU offers a supportive, affordable, and academically rigorous environment that prepares graduates for leadership and service. Learn more at www.ecsu.edu.

About TIND

TIND is an official CERN spin-off providing commercial library management systems, digital preservation, and research data management solutions based on CERN open-source software. Serving academic, public, and special research libraries around the globe, TIND is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.