Make your theses, dissertations, published journal articles, unpublished reports and working papers or conference proceedings available at www.eprints.necef.in for open access worldwide.

Benefits: Your research is made publicly available, globally and at the time of creation. It is not restricted to an institution, country or journal, or ability to pay and consequently may receive greater exposure from an international community of scholars. Our ePrint archive is searchable by 'scholarly' search engines such as Google Scholar, Arc, my.Oai and OAISter. This raises your profile and also of your institution. Global searches bring your research easily to the attention of other researchers worldwide.

How will people find my work? (1) by accessing and then searching the Repository directly; (2) through specialist search services that harvest OAI-PMH compliant databases; (3) through conventional search services such as Google and Yahoo.

What about copyright? The copyright for your thesis normally belongs to you, the author. You must verify any exception to this rule, and if your thesis includes any 3rd party copyrighted material you must ensure that you have permission from the rights holder(s), unless any exception applies. In case of published journal articles verify with the publisher if open access archiving is permitted. You can check different journal publisher policies on publishing ePrints at http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html.

What about plagiarism? Up until now, any plagiarism that might have occurred from paper copies has had a good chance of remaining hidden. Fortunately, electronic texts make any plagiarism far easier to detect. The Repository states under the policy section (http://eprints.necef.in/policies.html) that any use of the ePrints must credit the original author, and that they may not use the work for any commercial purposes.

What if I want to publish from my thesis? Making your thesis available on the web may be relevant to the decision that a book or journal publisher might later make about publishing or not your work. It may be simplest to deposit your thesis after you have published articles, etc.

What is Open Access? Open Access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. See Peter Suber's Open Access Overview for introduction at www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.

What is ePrint? ePrint is an electronic version of a paper, article or thesis, preserved in an archive and searchable and retrievable globally. The word encompasses preprints (versions of a paper distributed before refereed publication) and postprints or reprints (copies of a published paper). Confusingly, the term postprint can used for both the author’s own version of the accepted paper and the publisher produced electronic version. Some publishers allow an author to use the final PDF version of an article, as used on the journal's own web site; this is the publisher version. Others grant the author permission to post an article onto their institutional repository but only allow use of the accepted version or author version of the paper  - this is the final, peer-reviewed text but without the journal's own editing and production.

Who supports Open Access? There is growing support for Open Access around the world. One of the most important organisations is the Open Archives Initiative (www.openarchives.org) which develops interoperability standards that facilitate the dissemination of content in Open Access repositories.

What is an Open Access Repository or Archive? These are freely accessible web-based databases providing access to the full text of Open Access literature. These databases may be based around a particular subject area, or the scholarly output of an Institution e.g. a University. An ePrint archive allows an author to make their ePrints freely available to the world wide scholarly and scientific community on a much larger scale than is possible with paper. There are a number of national and international subject based ePrint Archives in existence, and many institutions are now setting up institutional ePrint Archives for making the institution’s scholarly output more freely available.

What is ePrint Server? An ePrint server is a server on which the Open Access research/scholarly output is mounted, and which provides search and browse capability to find particular papers. Our ePrint server complies with the standards of the Open Access Initiative, and registered with global OAI harvesters such as scirus (www.scirus.com), myOAI (www.myoai.com) and OAIster (www.oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister), provider of global search services for all archived publications.

Please download the form below to submit your work.