What is self-archiving?
To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website (e.g. Griffith Research Online), which is preferably OAI-compliant. Depositing involves a simple web interface where the depositor copypastes the “metadata” (date, author-name, title, journal-name, etc.) and then attaches the full-text document. In the case of Griffith University, the descriptive (metadata) information originates from existing data within the ‘My Research Publications’ area of the Griffith Portal, so there is no need to re-enter data. Refer instructions in Submitting content. The purpose of self-archiving is to make the full text of the research output of scholars / researchers and their institutions visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable, and useable by any potential user with access to the Internet.
To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website, preferably an OAI-compliant Eprint Archive. Depositing involves a simple web interface where the depositer copy/pastes in the “metadata” (date, author-name, title, journal-name, etc.) and then attaches the full-text document. Software is also being developed to allow documents to be self-archived in bulk, rather than one by one.
To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website, preferably an OAI-compliant Eprint Archive. Depositing involves a simple web interface where the depositer copy/pastes in the “metadata” (date, author-name, title, journal-name, etc.) and then attaches the full-text document. Software is also being developed to allow documents to be self-archived in bulk, rather than just one by one.
To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website, preferably an Open Archive Initiative-compliant archive, such as AHERO. Depositing involves a simple web interface where the depositer copy/pastes in the “metadata” (date, author-name, title, abstract) and then attaches the full-text document. Self-archiving takes only about 5 minutes for each paper. (Adapted from EPrints Self-Archiving FAQ, which is a useful site for more information about self-archiving.
