University of Guelph Library
The mission of the University of Guelph Institutional Repository is to promote scholarly communication by collecting and preserving the University of Guelph's intellectual output and ensuring that it has high visibility and accessibility.
At the University of Guelph, our repository utilizes DSpace technology to provide enduring access to scholarly research created by members of our community.
Collection Policy
- We will accept resources that are created by, published by, or sponsored by the University of Guelph, its faculty, its staff, its students and selected other affiliated scholars
- We will accept resources in virtually all formats and media
- Priority will be given to collections that have value to researchers and those that are digitally ready to implement
- Priority will be given to resources that will be fully open access
Current Collections in Our Repository
- OVC Digital repository
- CCS Graduate Student workshop materials
- Guelph Institute for the Environment
- Land Resource Science Historical Collection Institute for Community-Engaged Scholarship OAC Review
- NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (Ontario).
- OMAFRA vegetable crop research
- Research by librarians
- School of Engineering proceedings projects
- Scottish Studies Program - Women in Scotland
Collections Currently Under Development
- E-theses collection — graduate theses and dissertations
- Faculty publications
- Lectures in audio or video format
- Proceedings from conferences and colloquia held at the University of Guelph
- Student posters and exhibits
Value to Researchers
- Easy electronic submission process — Dspace technology allows the use of simple online forms for submission of materials. Researchers simply fill in the registration form providing descriptive information about the material and attach all necessary files.
- Retain author rights — For unpublished materials, our repository licence model allows authors to select the rights they wish to retain as well as the rights they wish to grant to others. The University of Guelph’s repository uses the Creative Commons Licence as our standard model.
For published works, our contacts on copyright issues can advise authors on options available to them. Many major publishing firms now allow copies (usually pre-print versions) to be deposited in the home repository of the original author.
- Increase access and readership to your work — Web search engines such as Google can locate listings within repositories. Similarly, "harvesters" like the one at CARL, gather information from repository collections and provide a single source for searching multiple sites simultaneously. This significantly increases the visibility of an author’s work. For individuals or institutions unable to afford subscriptions to expensive journals, this can drastically increase the amount of research material available to them.
- Ensure preservation of your research — A variety of preservation measures, such as file migration, will be undertaken to ensure that the materials deposited in the repository are preserved over time.
- Perpetual access — The mandate of the institutional repository is to preserve the scholarly output of the institution.
- Permanent links to work through the assignment of a permanent URL (DOI) — Each object in the repository is assigned a permanent URL, ensuring that access to materials is maintained over the long term.
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