How to Deposit

Doctoral Theses

Please see “Doctoral Theses” for details.

Journal Articles Published After February 2017

Journal Articles Published After February 2017 are applied “Kobe University Open Access Policy”. Please see “Kobe University Open Access Policy” for details.

Research Data

You can deposit research data which need for peer-review or demanded to open to the publc by journal publishers on third party data repositories.
Zenodo, figshare, and Dryad are part of third party data repositories on which you may deposit any fields of research. These repositories usually have functions that assign DOI to the research data, open data to the public and share data with specific people.
By using re3data.org, you can search for data repositories which specialized in your research field.

If you want to deposit your research data on the Kobe University Repository (Kernel), please send data file(s) and the resistration form below to the Digital Library Section.

Registration Form: Word (19.2KB) / PDF (84KB)
Digital Library Section: Contact Form [JPN]

All contents in the Kernel are assigned Handle URL (a kind of persistent identifier). In addition Handle URL, you can also assign JaLC DOI to them (※ It takes up to 1 week).
All contents deposited on the Kernel are opened to the public. The Kernel doesn’t have sharing function that open only to the specified people.
⇒ About JaLC

Other Research Outputs

Please fill out the registration form below and send Digital Library Section with research outputs you would like to register with Institutional Repository.
Library staff check if the publishers permit to deposit the manuscripts and make them freely available, and proceed only with the items permitted.

Registration Form: Word (19.2KB) / PDF (84KB)
Digital Library Section: Contact Form [JPN]

Who May Register?

  • Kobe University staff and former staff
  • Graduate students and research students
  • Those who were admitted by the chief librarian of Kobe University

Kinds of Material That Can Be Registered

  • Papers that have been published in journals
  • Papers that have been published in university bulletins
  • Doctoral theses
  • Books
  • Research reports
  • Research reports of “Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research” (final report)
  • Data
  • Teaching materials
  • Software
  • Education and research materials

Notes

  • Any kind of file (Microsoft Word, JustSystem Ichitaro, Adobe PDF etc.) is sufficient. Moreover, it is permissible to divide the file into several smaller files.
  • Many of publishers prohibit authors to deposit articles that published on journals (VoR) in Institutional Repository, therefore we may ask you to upload the final draft.
  • In the case of a collaborative work, obtain the consent of all who collaborated in advance.

E-mail notification of access count

We send an e-mail monthly to notify the access count for the each author’s items in the previous month.
Please contact us if you hope to try this service.
*This service is only for Kobe University Researchers.

Contact

Kobe University Library Digital Library Section
Library for Social Sciences
Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501
Tel 078-803-7333 Fax 078-803-7336
Contact Form [JPN]

Please see also “FAQ for Kobe University Repository Kernel“.