Library & Information Centre
Govt. Engineering College, Hassan
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​The Institutional Repository (IR) is an initiative of Library and Information Centre, i.e., ePrints@GECH - Collects, Preserves and Disseminates in Digital Format the Research Output and other Scholarly Publications created by GECH Community. This Institutional Repository was set up in June 2017, aims to cover scholarly publications which includes journal articles, conference papers, books, book reviews, presentations, reports published by faculty and students since the establishment of the College in 2006-07.
The faculty and research scholars are encouraged to self-archive their publications. We expect this service to facilitate the researchers from this College in self-archiving and long-term preservation of their scholarly publications, provide easy access to these publications world wide and improve impact of their research. It enables the Govt. Engineering College, Hassan - Faculty, Researchers and Students to Deposit their Pre-Prints, Post-Prints and Other Scholarly Publications using a Web-Interface. These Publications are then Organised for Easy Retrieval using Intranet or Internet.
While ePrints@GECH Repository can be accessed by anybody but Submission of Documents to this IR is restricted to Govt. Engineering College, Hassan (GECH) Members or Community Only.
One can browse publications by year, subject, divisions, author and document type. Both simple and advanced search features have been given for facilitating specific searches. Most of the documents are not directly full-texts downloadable, if the publication is in open access or if their institution has the accessibility to the concerned journal/publisher. 'Request Copy' forms can be used for documents to which direct full-text download is restricted due to publisher embargo. Please see repository policies. Your comments and suggestions for improving this service are most welcome
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An ePrint is a digital version of a research document (usually an academic paper or a journal article but could also be any other scholarly output) that is accessible online, whether from a local institutional, or a subject based digital repository. The term encompasses both preprints (before peer-review) and postprints (after peer-review).
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The repository includes both published and unpublished works of faculty and students.
Govt. Engineering College, Hassan publications include student project reports, working papers, lectures and books/special publications.
The repository includes selected in-house publications and audio and video recordings of lectures and programmes.
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The document types in this repository include the following
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Journal articles
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Journal items (editorials, conference report, debate, letter, short communication or response, book reviews)
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Books
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Book chapters
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Theses
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Conference papers
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Conference posters
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Reports (technical and non-technical)
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Newspaper and magazine articles
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Working papers
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Audio recordings
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Video recordings
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Datasets
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Images
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The repository benefits the authors and institutions in the following ways:
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Increases dissemination and impact of research
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Serves as a central archive of institutional research output
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Supports classroom teaching
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Increases visibility and prestige of the institution
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ePrints@GECH repository is running on EPrints open archive software (version 3.3.14), a freely distributable archive system available from eprints.org. ePrints@GECH complies with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) framework allowing publications to be easily indexed by web search engines and other indexing services.
Other institutions are invited (and encouraged) to set up their own open archives for author self-archiving, using the freely-distributable eprints.org software used at this site.