eprints

Your Pure profile is where you add content to ORCiD and QUT eprints.

Research outputs must be recorded in Pure in order to be included in RAD and appear in QUT ePrints and subsequently your QUT academic profile.

• Each research output only needs to be entered into Pure once.
• All of your QUT co-authors are notified of the new record in Pure.
• Entering a record prompts a workflow through to QUT Library and Office of Research Services for approval and validation.
• You may receive notifications/emails requesting more information or a copy of the accepted manuscript.
• On approval equivalent records are populated into QUT ePrints, making that output easily accessible and discoverable on the web through major search engines.
• Information is also added into RAD and, if you authorise it, your ORCID profile.

If you have questions - contact your liaison librarians: lib.bus@qut.edu.au 

Your Masters & PhD theses will be made available via QUT eprints and requesting an embargo is possible.

Here are a few things to consider from our Scholarly Communications librarian: 

We have also noticed an increase in the number of embargoed theses and the number of completed students requesting an extension to the 2 year embargo that was approved at the time of submission.

In some cases, the embargoes are being requested because the thesis includes one or more already published articles.   However, we now know that most journal publishers have no problem with authors including their published articles in their thesis and then making that thesis available online via their university’s open access repository.  CalTech have put together a list of links to publisher policies on this: https://libguides.caltech.edu/publisherpolicies   As a result, we have stopped worrying about theses that contain published articles.

In other cases, an embargo is requested because the student wants to publish articles (or a book) based on their thesis and worries that the article may get rejected if the journal’s plagiarism detector software finds text matches between the manuscript and the thesis.  The appropriate way to avoid this problem is to make sure you cite and reference your thesis if you ‘quote’ chunks of text from the thesis.  

When pitching a book proposal that is based on a thesis, the download stats for the thesis can actually be useful as ‘demonstrated demand’ for a book on that topic.  The finished book is likely to be a ‘re-write’ so the publishers generally don’t worry about the thesis being available.  This is a quote from Harvard University Press “when we at HUP take on a young scholar’s first book, whether in history or other disciplines, we expect that the final product will be so broadened, deepened, reconsidered, and restructured that the availability of the dissertation is irrelevant.”  However, some smaller presses are more restrictive (see list).

However, the ePrints Team is happy to apply or extend an embargo if it allays the thesis author’s concerns. 

The vast majority of thesis authors are happy that people are able to read their thesis – after all the effort they put into writing it. Many of our ‘most downloaded’ documents are HDR theses. For example: