About QUT ePrints

QUT ePrints is an institutional repository of eprints which showcases some of the research output of QUT staff and postgraduate students.

Most of the papers deposited in QUT ePrints are freely available via this website. This open access ensures the widest possible dissemination and impact for our work and contributes to the growing body of research literature that is now freely available online.

Eprints are electronic copies of academic papers. Eprints can be either preprints (a working paper or the version of a paper submitted for peer review) or postprints (the final draft of a paper, as accepted for publication following peer review).

Eprint repositories are complementary to traditional academic publishing; not a replacement. QUT researchers are continuing to submit their paper to journals for peer review and publication. However, whenever possible, they are now depositing copies of these papers in this eprint archive. In fact, it is QUT Policy that publicly available research and scholarly output of the University should be deposited in the QUT eprint repository. Material intended for commercialization of any kind is exempt.

Copyright Notice

The downloadable publications on this web site are presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

QUT ePrints provides:

Wider access to QUT research

Researchers publish in journals or present at conferences in order to disseminate the information as widely as possible. However, the cost of journal subscriptions, database license fees and restrictive licensing agreements can all be substantial access barriers.

Electronic copies of papers in an eprint repository can be made freely available to the global community of scholars. The cost-free access means that the potential audience for the papers is much wider.

Enhanced Research Impact

When a researcher's work is used and built upon, it is a measure of their impact on the field and on society. The work must first be visible and accessible before it can be built upon. When papers are deposited in an eprint archive, in addition to being submitted for publication in a journal, they become more visible and more accessible.

"Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access."

Lawrence , S. (2001) http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/online-nature01/

OAI compliant records which can be harvested by the major search engines

Because most eprint archives use a common set of standards, the contents of eprint servers around the world can be searched simultaneously, using search engines like OAIster (http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/), ARC (http://arc.cs.odu.edu/), and even Google

Facilitation of research collaboration

QUT eprints facilitates collaboration by making it easy for researchers to share copies of their work with other researchers in the field.

A showcase for QUT research

QUT ePrints showcases the quality research carried out by QUT Faculties, Schools and researchers in a single place.

For general information about eprints see:

Harnad,S. (2001) Freeing the refereed research literature online, Stevan Harnad, Nature 410: 1024 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/naturenew.htm

Contact Information

Any correspondence concerning this specific archive should be sent to eprints@qut.edu.au

If you are a QUT staff member or postgraduate student and you would like some more information or some assistance with the self-archiving process, please use the QUT ePrints contacts.

About this software

This archive is running on GNU EPrints open archive software, a freely distributable archive system available from software.eprints.org . Version is EPrints 2.3.13 (Cup Cake) [Born on 2005-07-25]

Other institutions are invited (and encouraged) to set up their own open archives for author self-archiving , using the freely-distributable GNU EPrints software used at this site

GNU EPrints is free software developed by the University of Southampton, England. For more information see eprints.org and software.eprints.org

Technologies employed and supported:

Supports: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting , Valid XHTML , Valid CSS .

Part of: The GNU Project .

Credits

Christopher Gutteridge - Designer and coder of EPrints version 2 .

Mike Jewell - Pre-release testing. The initial versions of scripts for creating and installing an EPrints v2 package. Some coding assistance.

Robert Tansley - Creator of EPrints 1 on which EPrints 2 is based.

Al Riddoch < ajr@ecs.soton.ac.uk > - Assistance in writing the "configure" script for the installer. Gui Power - Adapting the online help for version 2.

Developed at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton , England