SPARC Resources for Authors
Guidelines and Publisher's form to assist authors when submitting papers to Journals for publication - see: http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/index.html When signing publishers'forms, authors may attach the SPARC Author Addendum.
The objective of this project is to increase trust in the scholarly content of repositories by validating the author postprint versions of research articles that are found in repositories against the final publishers' version available from the publishers' official web site. The validation will perform three essential tasks:
The project is split between technology and business development in a partnership between the University of Southampton (academic research) and Key Perspectives Ltd (publishing industry consultants). An associate partner from the University of Tasmania provides an international testbed for the deployment of repository trust services in Australia's recently announced research assessment processes.
For more information, please see the http://valrec.eprints.org/about.html.
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