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Major features
The UC Research Repository is has the following
- Allows barrier free scholarly communication
- Each piece of research is given a unique, permanent URL (e.g. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1975
) - Complies with publisher copyright policies
- Opens up your work to a much wider audience
- Research appears quickly in ubiquitous search tools (Google Scholar, SCOPUS and others)
- The Repository is fully integrated with your Research Profile
- Easy to contribute
- Full support provided
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While theses, conference papers, posters and working papers are normally acceptable in their final format, copyright is often an issue when it comes to making journal articles openly accessible via the web. In the vast majority of cases, copyright over an article is transferred to the journal publisher. Despite this, most journal publishers do allow authors to make their work open-access, albeit with some restrictions on the format of the paper you use.
Usually, publishers proscribe the posting of do not allow authors to post the final, published version of your a paper on the Internet. However, the majority of large publishers do allow you to use your final draft version of the paper, which should be identical in content to the published version, albeit different in terms of formattingalthough the formatting may be quite different. In almost all cases where the use of the final draft is permitted, the publisher also insists on the inclusion of a set phrase that identifies the definitive version of the paper as their own, together with a link to their authorised version.
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