About e-Buah

The Digital Library of the University of Alcalá e_Buah is the institutional repository of the University of Alcalá (UAH). Its mission is to allow open access to the scientific production of the University, as well as to guarantee the preservation and increase the visibility and impact of the contents generated by the members of the UAH.

e_Buah aims to store, conserve, preserve and make visible the scientific production generated by teachers and researchers of the University of Alcalá (during their association with this University). It provides open access to information with standardized metadata.

e_Buah is compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PHM)standard and describes records using Dublin Core metadatato facilitate search and retrieval of contents.

e_Buah is part of:

  • e-Ciencia: the Autonomous Community of Madrid open files browser (Madrid public universities, Spanish National Distance University and Spanish National Research Council).
  • Europeana (European Digital Library).
  • RECOLECTA: Spanish institutional repositories platform. This is a joint initiative launched by the Network of Spanish University Libraries (REBIUN) and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT).
  • OpenAIRE: Implementation of the Open Access policies of the European Commission.

CONTENT

Material in e_Buah must be:

  • Of an academic or scientific nature.
  • Produced by a member of the university community, teaching and research staff or students of the UAH (during their association with the University).
  • Generated or published by the University, its members or its associated bodies.
  • Not ephemeral.
  • A finished work ready for distribution and archiving.
  • In digital format.
  • Licensed in perpetuity. The author must be entitled and willing to concede non-exclusive rights to the UAH to preserve and distribute his/her work via the repository.
  • Digital collections belonging to or published by the UAH.

Digital items for inclusion may consist of:

  • Published journal papers, including pre-prints (prior to peer review) and post-prints (after peer review).
  • Papers given at conferences, symposiums, seminars and other scientific meetings as well as presentations and posters.
  • Books and book chapters.
  • Theses.
  • Master’s Degree and Undergraduate Degree (pre- and post-EHEA) Final Projects.
  • Technical reports, papers and studies.
  • Working papers.
  • Digitised material.
  • Projects.
  • Patents.
  • Images.

FILE TYPES

To ensure long-term preservation of digital files, e_Buah will store files in PDF and JPEGformat. Furthermore, e_Buah reserves the right to manipulate files and implement the measures necessary to ensure future access (migration to new versions, etc.)


HOW TO UPLOAD A PAPER TO E_BUAH

The members of the Teaching and Research Staff of the UAH can deposit their open scientific production in e_Buah, to guarantee the preservation of their digital archives, increase the visibility of their research activity and comply with national and international Open Science regulations.

Uploading a paper to e_Buah repository is done from the Research Staff Portal and as a second option it could also be done through self-archiving.

For more detailed information on the process of depositing documents, see the section Deposit documents .

More information Biblioguía del Repositorio .


LICENCES

Licence: To deposit any kind of work on e_Buah for which the copyright is owned (approved by the University Governing Council on 12-18-2008).

Licence for self-archiving: The licence to deposit appears during the self-archiving process. In conceding this licence, the author grants e_Buah permission to make his/her work freely available as open access on the Internet. This is a non-exclusive licence. Therefore, the author may publish and disseminate his/her work via any other kind of media.

Creative Commons Licence: : Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation which offers licensing models that allow authors to freely deposit their work on the Internet, establishing certain limits to its usage.

All contents stored on e_Buah are protected under a Creative Commons Licence.

It is recommended to use the Reconocimiento-NoComercial-Sin-ObraDerivada ,licence that establishes use of the work under the following conditions:

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