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E-LIS Submission policy

Last Update: December 26, 2010

The purpose of the E-LIS archive is to make full text LIS documents visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable, and useable by any potential user with access to the Internet. Searching and archiving in E-LIS are totally free for any user. The only requirement is that authors wishing to submit a document need to register in order to obtain a user id in the system. Librarians, libraries, research institutes, organizations, and individual researchers involved in LIS and related fields are encouraged to make use of and contribute to the archive.

The E-LIS archive accepts any scientific or technical document, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities. The criteria for acceptance is that the eprints are relevant to research in LIS fields and that they have the form of a finished document that is ready to be entered into a process of communication. Publications may include: preprints (pre-refereed journal paper), postprints (refereed journal paper), conference papers, conference posters, presentations, books, book chapters, technical reports/departmental working papers, theses, and newspaper and magazine articles.

Submitted documents will be placed into the submission buffer, where they may be approved by the E-LIS Staff, rejected, or returned to the author for modifications in the metadata or if there are problems with the electronic file. Documents in the submission buffer are manually reviewed to confirm they fit our policy before adding them to E-LIS. E-LIS staff controls the metadata quality of the document and are allowed to make changes if the metadata are incorrect. Two business days is the allowable time period between when a paper is deposited to E-LIS and when it becomes accessible to other users.

All languages are supported. E-LIS is an international open archive. If the document is in a language other than English, it must include an English abstract and keywords in English.

Authors submitting documents are responsible for confirming there aren't any restrictions on the electronic distribution of the submitted document. Copyright issues will be the authors' responsibility. E-LIS is not responsible for contents submitted by the authors.

Deposit Agreement

For work being deposited by its own author:

In self-archiving this collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata, I grant E-LIS the right to store them and make them permanently available publicly for free on-line. I declare that this material is my own intellectual property and I understand that E-LIS does not assume any responsibility if there is any breach of copyright in distributing these files or metadata. All authors are urged to prominently assert their copyright on the title page of their work.

For work being deposited by someone other than its author:

I hereby declare that the collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata that I am archiving at E-LIS is in the public domain. If this is not the case, I accept full responsibility for any breach of copyright that distributing these files or metadata may entail.

Disclaimer

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