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The UC Research Repository is an open-access database of original research authored by Canterbury academics, researchers and postgraduate students. The Repository exists to expose UC research to as wide an audience as possible, by providing free access to full-text research, through common internet search tools such as Google Scholar.
How it works
The Repository works as an archive for Canterbury research, and features a well-structured, search engine friendly database format. The Repository is integrated with the UC People & Research Database and the Research Profile. Our Repository is also a member repository of the National Library of New Zealand's Kiwi Research Information Service (KRIS).
Getting your research into the Repository
You can add your research can be viewed as a storage area for research that allows search engines and other indexing tools to index its content. Although the Repository has its own search interface, we know that most visitors actually find our research by using secondary seaching methods - most commonly via Google Scholar, SCOPUS, and many other web-based search engines.Research is added to the Repository in one of three ways:
- Self submission via the UC People & Research & People Database
- Emailing the full-text research to the Repository, or your Information Librarian
- Using the thesis self-submission guidelines
Scope
Formats
While theses, coference papers, posters and working papers are normally accepted in their final format, copyright is often an issue for us when making journal articles open-access. Copyright of articles published in scholarly journals is most often transferred from the author(s) to the 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.
Once your research has ben submitted, the Library carefully vets your submission for copyright compliance (checking the publisher's policy on open-access archiving), after which it is categorised using the Marsden Fund's subject classification scheme, after which the item is made live.
What research is collected?
The Repository accepts The Repository is intended as an archival storage area for many types of scholarly output, and can handle accomodate accommodate written documents, images, video and audio recordings. The bulk of our collection consists of:
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