CityU Scholarly Repository

Want to make your research output more visible and discoverable? Need to increase the citation rate? Required to fulfill the funding body’s open access (OA) mandate (e.g. RGC’s OA requirement) and deposit your work in an institutional repository? ………

CityU Scholarly Repository provides the answers …… All CityU academic, research and academic equivalent staff are welcome to submit and deposit your intellectual outputs and scholarly research materials to the CityU Scholarly Repository (SR):

• It indexes, archives, preserves and disseminates your scholarly works. • Its contents are discoverable by search engines such as Google, Google Scholar and

OAIster to support open access (OA) and wider dissemination. • It showcases your intellectual output and shares with the world the University’s fruits of

research and scholarship to facilitate knowledge transfer and global scholarly communication.

http://cityusr.lib.cityu.edu.hk/jspui/sr_index.htm

Materials covered Both published (published version or post-prints) and unpublished materials are welcome. Materials include but not limited to journal articles, conference papers and presentations, book chapters, research and technical papers, working papers, awards, images, drawings and even videos.

File formats We accept texts, PDFs, powerpoint slides, pictures, photographs, audio and video clippings.

Useful forms and templates

Copyright issues For works in OA publications (OA journals and OA monographs), copyright will not be an issue. But for non-OA publications, it is necessary to first make sure that the publishers allow you to deposit your works in the institutional repository.

Library support We provide OA verification service to help check if the publisher concerned supports OA and whether there is any condition (e.g. the version that you can use, any article processing charge and embargo period, etc.)

We supply the Request for Permission Template for you to approach the publisher.

Submitting your work Complete the or email your Submission Form citation to your Subject Librarian. Look up his or her contact at this URL: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lib/about/subjlibn/subjlibn.htm

Benefits of submitting your work See overleaf for more details.

http://cityusr.lib.cityu.edu.hk/jspui/about.html#Forms Submission Request for Permission

For RGC’s OA Requirement

For Voluntary Deposit

Login with your CityU ID and Library PIN to access

the forms and templates

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Benefits for Faculty Authors: Make your publications indexed and archived in the CityU Scholarly Repository (SR) to enjoy the following benefits:

Permanent archive of your publications

SR offers a secure and backed-up place to permanently store your scholarly publications during your service at CityU. Its serves an organized single point of reference for your works which can be accessed anytime and anywhere through any web-enabled device.

The green route to open access to make your publications more visible

SR provides the green route to open access that enhances the visibility and discoverability of your works which will lead to greater use and citation. It is also the platform for you to meet the OA requirements (if any) of your funding bodies.

The gateway through which your expertise is identified

SR is the gateway through which the worldwide community identifies different expertise and areas of excellence within the University for research partnership and collaboration, knowledge transfer and commercialization as well as advice and consultation. These in turn enhance your reputation and research impact.

Reflecting the use of your publications and demonstrating your research impact SR includes bibliometrics information and will be continuously enhanced to include various statistics such as the view and download statistics to reflect the usage of your publications and your research impact.

OA Impact Advantage - Related studies have indicated that articles of subscription-based journals that are also self-archived in institutional repositories by the authors enjoy more citations than those that are not.

CityU Scholarly Repository (SR) is now in its beta version. It will be further enhanced to meet the needs of the faculty.

Bibliometrics such as citation counts and altmetrics will be included into your articles (if available) to demonstrate your research impact.

Enquiries Enquiries on materials and file formats or any technical issues - lbsystem@cityu.edu.hk Other questions about the CityU Scholarly Repository – lbdigital@cityu.edu.hk

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October 2014