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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
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Copyright clearance and preferred formats
While theses, coference conference papers, posters and working papers are normally accepted acceptable in their final format, copyright is often an issue for us when it comes to making journal articles open-access. Copyright of articles published in scholarly journals is most often transferred from the author(s) to the 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.
In most cases, the publisher proscribes the posting of the final, published version of the paper on the Internet. However, the majority of large publishers do allow authors to use their final draft version of the paper, which should be identical in content, if different in formatting. 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.
While this sounds like a lot of effort, we believe that these terms serve to get the articles out into the public realm, while protecting the interests of the publishers. While some of us might not agree with the idea of restrictions on access at all, this is a pragmatic solution - and a happy publisher is more likely to continue to support our authors than one that objects to placed it is a reasonable
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. Finally, the item is made live and will pop into public view.
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