Accessing ALIA e-prints

Registration

In order to add material to ALIA e-prints, you'll need a user registration. No charge is made for registering with us or using any of our services.

A simple registration page lets you sign up for an account, which this will allow you to create a subscription and deposit items.

If you are new to ALIA e-prints, enter your e-mail address and a password, then click 'submit'. You'll be sent an e-mail asking you to confirm your subscription request - just follow the instructions and your account will be added.

If you are an existing user but have forgotten your password, use the form to set a new one.

Collection policy

The collection will include deposits of full text electronic research output by members of ALIA and participants in the ALIA Research Exchange and Partnership (REAP) initiative.

Documents in the archive could be:

• pre-prints
• working papers
• published articles (post-prints)
• books/monographs
• book chapters
• online journals
• research reports
• inaugural lectures
• draft or final conference papers
• data sets
• theses
• any other form of research output which can be technically loaded to the repository [read on for more...]

Formats

Allowable formats are PDF, HTML,Postscript and ASCII. For ease of use, we prefer documents to be submitted as PDF or HTML.

Metadata

Eprints2 repository uses the simple Dublin Core metadata elements that are mandatory for data providers registered with the Open Archives Initiative. The database is enriched with other metadata schemas where appropriate, for example the use of the ERIC thesaurus for education and Journal of Economic Literature classification scheme for economics. It is expected that the metadata will develop in sophistication as the international open archive movement gains momentum.

Preservation/archiving

The intention is to create a permanent archive of research output; however, there is the option to remove papers in any of the following circumstances:

• If the journal in which a paper is formally published requires it
• If the paper proves scurrilous, plagiarizes, is libelous or breaches copyright
• If the academic author decides to remove it.