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| Who Can Submit Material? |
| All current Victoria University staff and students are encouraged to submit
appropriate material to the Institutional Repository. |
| Materials Suitable for
Inclusion |
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The
University's VUIR Policy in pdf format
Material which represents publicly available research and scholarly
output of the University can be submitted to the
Victoria University
Institutional Repository. The following types of material will be accepted
- Refereed scholarly and research articles and
contributions by current Victoria University staff and students at
the post print stage (this is subject to the agreement of the
publisher. Please see "Copyright and published
work")
- Refereed scholarly and research literature by
current Victoria University staff and students at the pre-print
stage (with corrigenda added subsequently if necessary at the
discretion of the author)
- PhD and Masters by Research degree thesis by
Victoria University students (as prepared for the
Australasian Digital Theses (ADT)
process).
- University related research material such as
books, working papers, discussion papers, government submissions,
reports and inaugural professional lectures.
The following material will not be accepted for submission
- Material which contains confidential information, or of which
the promulgation would infringe a legal commitment by the University
and/or the author should not be included in the repository. In this
category is third party confidential information such as
commercial-in-confidence reports as well as the University's
confidential information such as information which may be the
subject of a new patent application. [Note that once a patent
application has been filed then publication of the content does not
affect it.]
- Unedited/unreviewed personal opinion outputs
- Book reviews
- Non-educational/not-scholarly outputs
- Textbooks and teaching materials
- Material to which granting unrestricted access would compromise
ethical considerations, including those relating to cultural
sensitivities
- Theses, other than PhD and Masters by Research, except by
special request of Head of School
- Unrefereed draft papers or draft versions of papers released for
discussion
- Administrative documents and records, including those associated
with research projects
- Raw research data
Any material that fails to comply with the guidelines for inclusion
may not be accepted for submission or may be removed from the repository
as necessary.
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| Copyright and published work |
| For information on Copyright in relation to VUIR - please see "Copyright and VUIR" Important Links to Information
regarding Copyright
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| User Accounts |
| In order to deposit material with the Victoria University
Institutional
Repository - you must be a current staff member or student at Victoria
University with a user account on the VUIR server. Create an
account and register with the Repository Service by clicking on the
link and filling in the required form. |
| Format for Deposit |
Material can be deposited via the online VUIR Deposit Form in the
following formats:
- PDF (the preferred format)
- HTML
- Postscript
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
- Image JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF
- Video MPEG, QuickTime, AVI
- A URL link to the full text content where it
resides on another web site.
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| Submission |
| There are two ways of commencing the submission process to VUIR
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| Self Submission
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- Once you create an account you need to click on "Manage
Deposits"

- Click on "New Item"
- Fill in as much information on the form as possible*
* When you complete the form, upload the
documents and submit, it will not be released into the repository until
a Library staff member has checked the submission and verified that the
version it is permitted by a publisher (as applicable) to be mounted on
a repository. |
| Submission to the Library |
- Send a list of citations including copies of post print papers
to your Liaison Librarian.
- These will be forwarded to repository staff.
- Once the citation list has been checked for copyright permission
- a form will be sent back to you from the Library asking you to
sign off on your permission for the items to be mounted in the
repository.
- On receipt of the completed form, the citations and papers will
be added to the repository.

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