Introduction
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 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 Research & People Database
- Emailing the full-text research to the Repository, or your Information Librarian
- Using the thesis self-submission guidelines
Scope
The Repository is intended as an archival storage area for many types of scholarly output, and can handle accomodate 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
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.
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.