General Questions
Can an editor submit an e-print of another author to E-LIS?
The editors may help authors with depositing the documents.
What types of submission are accepted?
E-LIS accepts any scientific or technical document, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application disciplines. The criteria for acceptance are 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, postprints, conference papers, conference posters, presentations, books, book chapters, technical reports/departmental working papers, thesis and news paper and magazine articles.
Will an editor revise or edit submitted materials?
Submitted e-prints will be placed into the 'submission buffer', where they can be either approved by editors, rejected outright or returned to the author for modifications in the metadata or problems with the e-print. E-prints in the 'submission buffer' are manually checked to validate if they fit our policy before adding them to E-LIS. The editors control the metadata quality of the document. They are allowed to correct them.
If an author posts a preprint and then publishes it in a journal or book, can the pre-print remain on E-LIS?
Individual journal policies vary on this question. It depends on the copyright agreement with the publisher. If that agreement requires the author to remove the posted preprint, the author should remove it. However, many publishers are adapting to the changing environment of electronic publishing. For example, Elsevier, the publisher of such journals as International Information and Library Review or Library and Information Science Research, states that contributors to its journals have
"...the right to retain a preprint version of the article on a public electronic server such as the World Wide Web. Elsevier Science does not require that authors remove from publicly accessible servers versions of their paper that differ from the version as published by Elsevier Science."
See more information on Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving of the RoMEO project with a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement
Which languages are supported in E-LIS?
All languages are supported. But if the document is in a language other than English, an English abstract and keywords in English must be included.
After an e-print is deposited on E-LIS, how soon will it become available to the public?
As soon as it is approved by the editors it will become available. When a document is deposited, it immediately gets sent to the 'submission buffer' where the editors decide whether the document meets E-LIS quality standards. The paper is then publicly accessible via a search, though it may not appear immediately in the 'browse tree'.
The editors should approve the e-prints in no more than 48 hours.
Which file formats can authors use for submitting an e-print?
The following document formats are allowed: PDF, PostScript, Tex, LaTeX (DVI), HTML, XML, ASCII (text), PowerPoint, MS Word DOC and RTF. HTML and PDF formats are strongly recommended.
Get more information on Preservation.
Can an author remove an e-print from the archive?
The intent of the E-LIS is to preserve and globally share peer-reviewed research material created by LIS authors. Removal of e-prints disrupts this intent. The software does not allow authors to remove e-prints automatically. However, an authors' request for removal will be considered by the editors.
Can an author modify the metadata of his/her e-prints?
The software doesn't allow authors to modify the metadata automatically. The repository guarantees a validation about registered data of the e-prints. The author needs to contact the editors.
Can an editor delete an e-print in the live archive?
An editor can under author's request. But the e-print could have another version in E-LIS, so the editor should delete the relation between them too. The editor has to find the other e-print and delete the ID code in 'Later Version of'.
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