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- Self submission via the UC People & Research Database
- Emailing the full-text research to the Repository, or your Information Librarian
- 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
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kinds of research do we collect?
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:
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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 its existence in the Repository. In our experience, the 'interference' from search engine hits becomes insignificant over time.
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.