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The University of Canberra Research Repository is an open access digital repository, currently containing research output of University of Canberra staff and postgraduate students from 2002-2008 & 2010. Further research outputs will progressively be added to the Repository.

The purpose of the Repository is to preserve and make accessible the research work of the University to local, national and international communities. This maximises impact for individual researchers and highlights the overall research profile of the University.

The Repository will include bibliographic details (metadata) such as author, title, publication date, abstract and keywords about material included and, where copyright allows, full text of items will also be available for works that can be digitised for viewing and download.

The University of Canberra Research Repository is an open access repository, publicly searchable and accessible via the Internet.

Repository staff will be collecting the details (metadata) of research work created by UC staff from the Research Services Office and loading it into the Research Repository. UC research students will have their theses deposited into the Repository Theses Collection by Library staff.

The Repository includes works from all reportable and non-reportable HERDC categories produced by University staff such as, but not limited to:

Theses created by UC research students are added to the Theses Collection in the Research Repository.   

Material intended for commercialisation or covered by a contract that would not allow deposit in an institutional repository

• Teaching or administrative materials
• Material containing confidential or culturally sensitive information
• Defamatory, misleading or deceptive material or work that breaches privacy or racial vilification laws
• Non-academic or non-scholarly outputs
• Unedited / reviewed personal opinion outputs
• Work that breaches copyright legislation including the intellectual rights of any third party

For Researchers:

• Increased exposure of your research by making it accessible and searchable worldwide via the Internet
• Maximised impact of research - research deposited in the University of Canberra Research Repository will experience increased exposure, which is likely to result in increased citation rates
• Research outputs will be indexed by search engines - research deposited in the University of Canberra Research Repository will be harvested by search engines such as Google Scholar, OAIster (a worldwide catalogue of digital resources) and the National Library of Australia's TROVE catalogue resulting in high rankings of your research in search engine results
• A centralised repository of research - The University of Canberra Research Repository will provide you with central, searchable storage of your research. This will enable you to easily keep track of your research, assist you in keeping your resume updated, and provide easy access to your full text research portfolio for colleagues and students
• Research collaboration - The University of Canberra Research Repository facilitates collaboration and research linkages with other researchers in the field
• Research preservation and access - The University of Canberra Research Repository will provide long-term secure access to, and preservation of, your research

For the University:

• Highlighted research profile - The Research Repository will reinforce the research profile of the University by providing a consolidated, centralised showcase of the University's research output
• Research reporting - The Research Repository will support University requirements for DIISR and Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) submission 

Copyright ownership does not change when the full text of an item is deposited in the Research Repository; copyright owners retain copyright for all content deposited in the Repository and grant the University a non-exclusive right to provide access via the Repository.

One of the following conditions will need to apply before we accept  the full-text of a work into the Repository:

• You, as the author, retain copyright ownership, or
• You have transferred copyright ownership to a publisher but have retained the right to deposit a version of your work (e.g. a post-print) into an institutional repository
• The publisher has granted permission to deposit a specific version of the publication into an institutional repository (publisher archiving policy)

It has, in the past, been common practice to relinquish copyright to a publisher. If copyright is owned by the publisher the Library will assign an access level that conforms to the publisher’s policy on open access.

The vast majority of journal publishers now allow authors to archive the “final draft” of their articles in an institutional repository.

Library staff will not make material publicly available until confident they have authorisation to do so. The SherpaRomeo project and OAKList database provide searchable databases of publisher's archiving policies. For conferences papers it is usually necessary to contact publishers of conference proceedings.