EPrints software was developed in year 2000 by the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science. An IR is an online collection, management and dissemination of scholarly materials or intellectual output in digital format based on a defined scope by an institution. For a university, the materials may include final year projects, theses, research journal articles, conference papers, archives, etc. Benefits of IR are: By preserving and disseminating the institutional materials in IR, we are able to share the knowledge of the research effort that has been carried out. It allows easy access since all these scholarly materials are in digital format which can be accessed 24x7 from anywhere. This encourages knowledge sharing among the University’s community. To create global visibility for the University’s research if we open the access to the public. 2.0 Policy of UTAR IR Implementation Each RP submitted to the Library must accompany with a permission sheet (Appendix I) signed by the student, to acknowledge that the student understood that the RP submitted may be uploaded to UTAR IR. All RP with grade A- and above submitted by students will be uploaded into UTAR IR. The Library uploads the RP into the UTAR IR and also to catalogue all the RP in the Library OPAC system. For RP carried out by a of students, the highest grade obtained by one or more group members will be considered the grade for the RP. For example, if one group member obtained grade A-, that RP will be considered as obtained grade A-. Thus, the RP will be uploaded into UTAR IR. For those RP with grades below A-, the Library will not upload them into UTAR IR. Instead, the Library will only catalogue the RP into OPAC system. The Library patrons can still access the RP with grades below A- since the CD/DVD for all of the RP were kept in the Library. 2.5 The patron can check through the Library catalogue to retrieve the bibliographic information for all of the RP. 3.0 Procedures
EPrints software was developed in year 2000 by the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science. An IR is an online collection, management and dissemination of scholarly materials or intellectual output in digital format based on a defined scope by an institution. For a university, the materials may include final year projects, theses, research journal articles, conference papers, archives, etc. Benefits of IR are: By preserving and disseminating the institutional materials in IR, we are able to share the knowledge of the research effort that has been carried out. It allows easy access since all these scholarly materials are in digital format which can be accessed 24x7 from anywhere. This encourages knowledge sharing among the University’s community. To create global visibility for the University’s research if we open the access to the public. 2.0 Policy of UTAR IR Implementation Each RP submitted to the Library must accompany with a permission sheet (Appendix I) signed by the student, to acknowledge that the student understood that the RP submitted may be uploaded to UTAR IR. All RP with grade A- and above submitted by students will be uploaded into UTAR IR. The Library uploads the RP into the UTAR IR and also to catalogue all the RP in the Library OPAC system. For RP carried out by a of students, the highest grade obtained by one or more group members will be considered the grade for the RP. For example, if one group member obtained grade A-, that RP will be considered as obtained grade A-. Thus, the RP will be uploaded into UTAR IR. For those RP with grades below A-, the Library will not upload them into UTAR IR. Instead, the Library will only catalogue the RP into OPAC system. The Library patrons can still access the RP with grades below A- since the CD/DVD for all of the RP were kept in the Library. 2.5 The patron can check through the Library catalogue to retrieve the bibliographic information for all of the RP. 3.0 Procedures