How to Deposit

With Kernel, you can deposit and publish research outputs you have produced, such as journal articles, bulletin articles, doctoral theses, book chapters, reports, research data, etc.
Please refer to the “Kobe University Open Access Policy” for details on who can deposit and what materials are eligible.

Deposit Journal Articles / Conference Proceedings

Full-time faculty members

The research results of faculty members listed on the Kobe University Researcher Introduction System and researchmap have been automatically imported into the 「Kernel Deposit System」 from researchmap. Select the article you want to publish via Kernel from the “not registered” list in the Kernel Deposit System and upload its accepted manuscript to the library.

After your submission, the library reviews the publisher’s copyright policy and handles the necessary processes.
To publish multi-authored materials via Kernel, their agreement is necessary. Please obtain consent in advance.
For more details about functions and usage of the “Kernel Deposit System”, please refer to the manual.

As set forth in the Open Access Policy, the research results of Kobe University faculty members need to be published via Kernel.

Except for the above

If you cannot log in to the “Kernel Deposit System” or your research results are not imported into that system, please submit the “Deposit application form” to the Digital Library Section of Kobe University Library along with the file you wish to publish. The library will review the submitted research result and copyright policy, then deposit and publish it. The results of the review and whether it can be published will be communicated to you by the responsible staff member via email.

Many scholarly publishers permit publishing only an accepted manuscript, not the version of record.
In addition, to publish multi-authored materials via Kernel, their agreement is necessary. Please obtain consent in advance.

Deposit Application Form：Word(18.5KB)・PDF(187KB)
Contact：Contact form for the Institutional Repository（Digital Library Section）

Deposit Bulletins

Please refer to “Deposit Bulletins” if you want to deposit a bulletin into Kernel comprehensively and on an ongoing basis.

When you want to deposit only your article in a bulletin into Kernel, please submit the “Deposit application form” to the Digital Library Section of Kobe University Library along with the file you wish to publish.
If you wish to publish multi-authored materials via Kernel, their agreement is necessary. Please obtain consent in advance.

Deposit application form：Word(18.5KB)・PDF(187KB)
Contact：Contact form for the Institutional Repository（Digital Library Section）

Deposit Doctoral Theses

For details, please refer to “About Doctoral Theses“.

Deposit Research Data / Evidence Data

Research data necessary for peer review or required to be made public by a journal can be deposited into a data repository.
Zenodo, figshare and Dryad are major versatile data repositories. These repositories offer useful functions such as assigning a DOI, making data publicly available, or sharing it with specific individuals.
You can also search for data repositories in your research field by using re3data.org.

If you want to deposit your research data into Kernel, please enter information about the research data and upload it via “Kernel Deposit System“. If you cannot use that system, please submit the “Deposit application form” to the Digital Library Section of Kobe University Library along with the data file you wish to publish.

How to deposit via Kernel Deposit System: Evidence Data of Article・Other Research Data

Deposit Application Form：Word(18.5KB)・PDF(187KB)
Contact：Contact form for the Institutional Repository（Digital Library Section）

Deposit Other Research Results

Please submit the “Deposit application form” to the Digital Library Section of Kobe University Library along with the file you wish to publish. The library will review the submitted research result and copyright policy, then deposit and publish it. The results of the review and whether it can be published will be communicated to you by the responsible staff member via email.

Deposit Application Form：Word(18.5KB)・PDF(187KB)
Contact：Contact form for the Institutional Repository（Digital Library Section）

About Other Functions

Assigning JaLC DOI

Although all items in Kernel are assigned a Handle URL, you can request a JaLC DOI to be assigned to your research result. The assignment of a JaLC DOI may take up to one week.
For more details, please refer to “About JaLC DOI“.

Download Count Notification

Kernel can send you a monthly email with the download count for your research results.
If you want to receive this notification, please contact the Digital Library Section.

Contact

Digital Library Section, Kobe University Library
Contact Form

Before making an inquiry, please refer to the “FAQ about the Kobe University Repository Kernel“