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Activate your account

1. Go to the Register and select "Registration Form."
2. Enter your username, password and e-mail, and click the "Register" button.

Request authorization to submit documents

1. E-LIS requires specific authorization for your account before you can submit documents. This registration will not be activated until you visit the confirmation URL which will be emailed to you.
2. See more information about User Record at How to deposit.

Determine if the document is eligible for deposit

For a document to be eligible for deposit to E-LIS, it should meet a few requirements

1. It should be an acceptable document type. See Submission guidelines
2. It should conform to publisher's copyright policy. Verify that the document you wish to add to E-LIS is copyright-cleared. See Copyright policy.

Prepare your material

1. Have a list of metadata that describe the document you wish to submit. See Submission guidelines: metadata.
2. Review your material and make any corrections. Once your document has been submitted to E-LIS, any corrections must be done by the E-LIS Staff.
3. In order to support long-term access to documents in E-LIS, it is strongly suggested that documents be submitted in .pdf or .html format. Check with E-LIS Staff for more information on other acceptable file formats. It is not usually acceptable to deposit the publisher-produced PDF, unless the publisher gives permission to do so. If you need to convert a copy of your document to .pdf see How to Convert a file into PDF.

Submit your material

1. After your account has been authorized for submitting documents, go to the E-LIS homepage. Click on "My DSpace (authorized users)." Login with your E-LIS username and password.
2. Click on "Start a new submission." You will be led through a three-step process: these include some basic questions about the document type, versions or commentaries and bibliographic description where you can describe your documents, then file uploads, a verification screen. You will be asked to choose a CC license and to grant the terms of the deposit license. Follow the directions on each screen. For an illustrated description of these screens, see the How to deposit.
• Be sure to review the entries very carefully for accuracy and completeness. What is entered will be what others use to find the document record in the future.
• Save your work, review previous steps, and/or cancel the process at any point until the final submission command is given. All information entered is automatically saved.
• If any changes need to be made, contact the E-LIS Staff.
3. Submit another document or close the window, it isn't necessary to logout.
4. Once the submission process is completed, an editor will check the submission to ensure its suitability for inclusion in the open archive. Additional metadata may be supplied as well. In other words, your documents may need futher approval before being publicly available.
5. If the document is not approved, the E-LIS Staff will state the reason by email. Once you have corrected the problem, the document will be re-entered into the workflow process and posted into the E-LIS.