Swinburne figshare is Swinburne's Open research repository, preserving and publishing research and scholarly works for public discovery, citation, and re-use.
Are you a Swinburne staff researcher?
Start in Elements Claim or +Add then Deposit Librarians moderate
Are you a Swinburne HDR student?
Start in figshare +Create new item Librarians moderate
Swinburne figshare supports a broad range of work types for Open Access deposit. For published works, we can still host versions of your manuscript even when publisher gains copyright over your work. For unpublished works (e.g. most NTROs), we can host a stable, citable version for you:
We can only host versions of works where you own the copyright, so there are a few you can't deposit:
All deposited works are moderated by a Library team (contact figshare@swin.edu.au), who check to ensure that curatorial standards for discovery, preservation, copyright and funder requirements are applied.
Once approved, your work will be publicly available/Open Access via Swinburne figshare, and discoverable via web search.
Please report through any problems that occur during the Deposit process, or other systems issues with figshare: figshare@swin.edu.au
Every university in Australia has an institutional repository: a managed, Copyright-compliant open access (OA) collection that preserves and promotes public access to affiliated research and scholarly works.
Learn more about Open Access (OA) here.
Institutional repositories support self-archiving or Green OA. The self-archiving model allows researchers to make manuscript versions of their published works available for open access, in compliance with funder OA policies and publisher-held Copyright.
Institutional repositories are also publishing platforms for unique works not published elsewhere, preserving and hosting non-traditionally published research objects for open access, with a citable DOI and access to usage metrics.
An institutional repository is also an integrated part of internal university research management and reporting systems, and feeds data through to researcher's public profiles.
Here at Swinburne, the institutional repository is Swinburne figshare.
Yes. Access your Swinburne figshare account, login using your SSO/staff details, and use the + Create new item button. Take care to change and select the Group appropriate to the submitted output type. This is a good option if you need to store a dataset and provide a private link and pending DOI for peer review ahead of publication.
Contact the repository team, attaching your new file and indicating a replacement is required.
Contact the repository team.
Yes. All works in Swinburne figshare get a repository DOI.
To request a DOI in advance of publication, enter a comment while depositing from Elements.
Open usage licenses, such as Creative Commons and others, clarify how others can use, share, and build upon research, fostering greater collaboration and innovation.
When your works are preserved in an Open institutional repository, they reach a wider and much more diverse audience beyond just academic circles. A license statement encourages fair attribution while promoting the responsible dissemination of knowledge.
See more about licenses available in figshare here
Researchers benefit from openly publishing/sharing their work in Swinburne figshare in multiple ways, including:
Usage metrics (views, downloads, and citations) are displayed in the public record for each item in Swinburne figshare, dating from when the item was deposited.
Please note: collection-wide statistics are also available going back to 2018.
Works are integrated with Swinburne Elements and Find an Expert, and selected types are also indexed by *search engines and other indexers.
Please pay careful attention to the Licence, and/or Copyright statement, displayed for each work in Swinburne figshare.
The preferred version for deposit of works already published is the manuscriptversion.
When your paper is accepted for publication, usually you (the author) sign a Copyright agreement with your publisher which assigns rights and licensing to the publisher. This means that you do not retain the right to deposit and share the published version in an Open repository, and we do not have permission from your publisher to host this version.
Also note: if the published version is already Open Access at the publisher's website, there is no need to also deposit it for Open Access.