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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.
In most cases, the publisher proscribes Usually, publishers proscribe the posting of the final, published version of the your paper on the Internet. However, the majority of large publishers do allow authors you to use their your final draft version of the paper, which should be identical in content to the published version, if albeit different in terms of 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 are a reasonable compromise, and 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 reasonableit's always good to havea happy publisher.
Who checks copyright?
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.
These steps are aimed at reducing your compliance overhead, while ensuring that we play nicely with the copyright holders.
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While web statistics are less than 100% reliable, we wdo do allow you to monitor the performance of your work in the repository.
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 its first few weeks of its existence in the Repository. In our experience, the 'interference' from search engine hits becomes increasingly insignificant over time.
What we measure - views, downloads and ratios
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