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  1. Self submission via the UC People & Research Database
  2. Emailing the full-text research to the Repository, or your Information Librarian
  3. Using the thesis self-submission guidelines

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

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can you give us?

The Repository accepts many types of scholarly output, and can handle accommodate written documents, images, video and audio recordings. The bulk of our collection consists of:

  • books
  • chapters in books
  • conference papers (and powerpoint displays)
  • journal articles
  • reports
  • theses (masters and doctoral)
  • working papers

Statistics

Finding out whether it works - statistics

While web statistics are less than 100% reliable, we wdo allow you to monitor the performance of your work in the repository.

You Using our statistics tool, you can find statistics for authors by College, School or department, view titles available in the Repository for any given author, or create a list of the 'top' items in the Repository as a whole, or by College, School and departmental units.

Please note that some of the hits on your work may be from search engines, which typically inflate the figures for you work in the first few weeks of the

Software

The Repository uses Dspace, an open-source, OAI compliant tool created jointly by MIT and HP Labs.  The software is maintained by the University of Canterbury's Library IT department, and by ICTS.