F/1.3 E-print repository for research output at QUT

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1.3.1 Application
1.3.2 Policy
1.3.3 Responsibility
1.3.4 Operational Guidelines
Modification History

1.3.1 Application

QUT staff and post-graduate students produce research and scholarly output as a contribution to their discipline and/or as part of scholarly discourse. A significant proportion of this is intended for publication for the general purpose of recognition and impact. The following policy applies to this process, only where such output is not intended for commercialisation or individual royalty payment or revenue for the author or QUT. In effect it applies to the corpus of refereed research literature, conference proceedings, and other non-refereed output, as contributed by QUT to the outside world.

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1.3.2 Policy

Material which represents the total publicly available research and scholarly output of the University is to be located in the University's digital or " E print " repository, subject to the exclusions noted. In this way it contributes to a growing international corpus of refereed and other research literature available on line, a process occurring in universities worldwide.

The following materials are to be included:

• refereed research articles and contributions;
• at the post-peer review stage (the accepted draft - also referred to as the postprint);
  
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• at the pre-peer review (preprint) stage, with corrigenda added following peer review if necessary.
• un-refereed research literature, conference contributions, chapters in proceedings, etc (the accepted draft).
• theses as prepared for the Australian Digital Theses (ADT) process.

Access to these contributions will be subject to any necessary agreement with the publisher.

The material is to be organised in the repository according to the same categories used for the reporting of research to DEEWR (see Office of Research Web Site ).

Material to be commercialised, or which contains confidential material, or of which the promulgation would infringe a legal commitment by the University and/or the author, should not be included in the repository.

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1.3.3 Responsibility

Uploading of material to the E-print repository is the responsibility of authors and researchers, as advised and supported by the University Library. Responsibility for management of the repository rests with the University Library.

Where authors or researchers maintain home pages, links should be provided to the article or document which has been submitted to the University E-print repository.

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1.3.4 Operational Guidelines

Guidelines specifying the lodgement points and the process to be followed for lodging materials in the E-print repository are available from the University Library . Guidance on Copyright arrangements and standards for publishers is available from the University Copyright Officer . The Director, Library Services will report annually through the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support) to University Research and Innovation Committee and the Office of Research on the status of the E-print repository.

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Modification History

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