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ScholarlyCommons@AUT captures, distributes and preserves digital research products. Here you can find theses, dissertations, articles and conference papers in various digital formats. Content grows daily as new communities and collections are added to DSpace.

The ScholarlyCommons@AUT content is organized around Communities which can correspond to administrative entities such as schools, departments, labs and research centres. Within each community there can be an unlimited number of subcommunities and an unlimited number of collections. Each collection may contain an unlimited number of items.

Browse allows you to go through a list of items in some specified order:

Browse by Community/Collection takes you through the communities in alphabetical order and allows you to see the subcommunities and collections within each community.

Browse by Title allows you to move through an alphabetical list of all titles of items in ScholarlyCommons@AUT.

Browse by Author allows you to move through an alphabetical list of all authors of items in ScholarlyCommons@AUT.

Browse by Date allows you to move through a list of all items in ScholarlyCommons@AUT in reverse chronological order.

To search all of ScholarlyCommons@AUT, use the search box at the top of the navigation bar on the left (or the search box in the middle of the home page)

To limit your search to a specific community or collection, navigate to that community or collection and use the search bar on that page.

ScholarlyCommons@AUT uses the Jakarta Lucene search engine. Here are some search hints:

What is searched in the general keyword search (yellow box)
The word(s) you enter in the search box will be searched against the title, author, subject, abstract, series, sponsor and identifier fields of each item's record.

The word(s) you entered will also be searched against the full text of many archived documents. For more information on full-text searching please contact your DSpace Administrator.

What is not searched - Stop Words
The search engine ignores certain words that occur frequently in English, but do not add value to the search. These are:

"a", "and" , "are" , "as" , "at" , "be" , "but" , "by" , "for" , "if" , "in" , "into",

"is" ,"it" ,"no" , "not" , "of" , "on" , "or" , "such", "the" , "to" , "was"

Truncation
Use an asterisk (*) after a word stem to get all hits having words starting with that root, for example:

   will retrieve selects, selector, selecting.

Stemming
The search engine automatically expands words with common endings to include plurals, past tenses ...etc.

Phrase Searching
To search using multiple words as a phrase, put quotation marks (") around the phrase.

Exact word match
Put a plus (+) sign before a word if it MUST appear in the search result. For instance, in the following search the word "training" is optional, but the word "dog" must be in the result.

Eliminate items with unwanted words
Put a minus (-) sign before a word if it should not appear in the search results. Alternatively, you can use NOT. This can limit your search to eliminate unwanted hits. For instance, in the search

  or  

you will get items containing the word "training", except those that also contain the word "cat".

Boolean searching

The following Boolean operators can be used to combine terms. Note that they must be in UPPER CASE!

AND - to limit searches to find items containing all words or phrases combined with this operator, e.g.

will retrieve all items that contain BOTH the words "cats" and "dogs".

OR - to enlarge searches to find items containing any of the words or phrases surrounding this operator, e.g.

will retrieve all items that contain EITHER of the words "cats" or "dogs".

NOT - to exclude items containing the word following this operator, e.g.

will retrieve all items that contain the word "training" EXCEPT those also containing the word "cat".

Parentheses can be used in the search query to group search terms into sets, and operators can then be applied to the whole set, e.g.

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The advanced search page allows you to specify the fields you wish to search, and to combine these searches with the Boolean AND OR or NOT.

You can restrict your search to a community by clicking on the arrow to the right of the top box. If you want your search to encompass all of ScholarlyCommons@AUT, leave that box in the default position.

Then select the field to search in the left hand column and enter the word or phrase you are searching in the right hand column. You can select the Boolean operator to combine searches by clicking on the arrow to the right of the "AND" box.

Note: You must use the input boxes in order. If you leave the first one blank your search will not work.

The ScholarlyCommons@AUT content is organized around Communities which can correspond to administrative entities such as schools, departments, labs and research centers. Within each community there can be an unlimited number subcommunities and an unlimited number of collections. Each collection may contain an unlimited number of items.

Each community has its own entry page displaying information about that community, as well as a descriptive list of collections within the community.

Communities can have an unlimited number of collections in ScholarlyCommons@AUT. Collections can be organised around a topic, or by type of information (such as working papers or datasets) or by any other sorting method which may be in organising a community's digital items. Collections can have different policies and workflows.

Each ScholarlyCommons@AUT collection has its own entry page displaying information about that collection.

When you access an area of ScholarlyCommons@AUT that requires authorisation, the system will require you to log in. All users can register to become subscribers. Some restricted functions, such as content submission, require authorisation from the community

Before you log in for the first time, you will need to click on "New User?" and follow the instructions. After that, you will need to enter your e-mail address and password in the log-in form that appears. Your e-mail address should include your username and domain name. It is not case sensitive.

Example: moniker@mycorp.com

Type your password exactly as you entered it originally. It is case sensitive. Be sure to click on the "log in" button to continue.

For assistance with the deposit process for theses and dissertations, postgraduate students should consult the Guide to depositing a thesis, dissertation or exegesis.

When your item becomes a part of the ScholarlyCommons@AUT repository it is assigned a persistent URL. This means that, unlike most URLs, this identifier will not have to be changed when the system migrates to new hardware, or when changes are made to the system. ScholarlyCommons@AUT is committed to maintaining the integrity of this identifier so that you can safely use it to refer to your item when citing it in publications or other communications. Our persistent urls are registered with the Handle System, a comprehensive system for assigning, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers, known as "handles," for digital objects and other resources on the Internet. The Handle System is administered by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which undertakes, fosters, and promotes research in the public interest.

If you are an authorized ScholarlyCommons@AUT depositer or supervisor, or if you are a staff member responsible for ScholarlyCommons@AUT collection or metadata maintenance, you will have a My ScholarlyCommons@AUT page. Here you will find:

• a list of your in-progress deposits - from this list you can resume the deposit process where you left off, or you can remove the deposit and cancel the item.
• a list of the deposits which you are supervising or collaborating on
• a list of deposits that are awaiting your action (if you have a collection workflow role).
• a link to a list of items that you have deposited and that have already been accepted into ScholarlyCommons@AUT.

This page allows you to change the information we have for you. You must be authenticated with your log-in to change any of your personal information.

Users can subscribe to receive daily e-mail alerts of new items added to collections. Users may subscribe to as many collections as they wish. To subscribe:

• go to the ScholarlyCommons@AUT registration page by clicking on the sign-on link in the navigation bar on the left of the home page
• fill out the registration form
• navigate to a collection for which you would like to receive e-mail alerts, and click on the "subscribe" button (repeat for other collections)
• to edit your subscriptions, go to the "Subscribe" page.

For help with using ScholarlyCommons@AUT please contact the ScholarlyCommons@AUT Administrator.

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