DORA

DORA is the institutional repository and bibliography of the four research institutes within the ETH Domain (Eawag, Empa, PSI, and WSL), hosted by Lib4RI. The repository is based on the open source software framework Islandora.

DORA simultaneously acts as:

  • Open Access (OA) Repository: Researchers are able to make full text versions of their scientific articles freely available in DORA (through the green road to OA), thus increasing the visibility of publications and facilitating compliance with the OA policies of many research funders.
  • Bibliography: DORA records the scientific publications of the research institutes and is thus a source for publication lists used e.g. on the institutional websites or for academic reports.
  • Archive: DORA preserves the publications in full text and makes them available to members of the research institutes.

Submit your publications to DORA

As a service to our users, we developed an ingestion workflow to automatically include publications in DORA. However, you can still manually submit remaining publications with the forms below for each research institute. Please keep in mind the content policy.

See step-by-step instructions for the submission process of Eawag, Empa, WSL and PSI:

Further resources

Info DORA

FAQs

FAQs

  • Please have a look at our Content Policy to be sure about the formats and lengths accepted of your paper. Please note, that we do not record publications that are not directly related to the research institutes (e.g. from your work at previous employers).

  • You can submit your publication during the whole year (recommended), directly after it is available online. The last date for submitting a publication for the current reporting year is always at the 10th of December and will be pronounced via e-mail. Every publication which reaches us after this date will be counted in the following reporting year.

  • At the right side on every record you can find feedback forms, available for different cases you may want to report. By clicking on one of these options an online form opens for you to fill in. This information (including the persistent URL of the publication) is then sent to @email for us to evaluate.

  • We currently use three different symbols to indicate the availability of full texts in DORA:

    • The open-green lock is used for all open-access documents, i.e. the full text is available to everyone with internet access.
    • The open-yellow lock is used for closed-access articles that are, however, available internally to members of the 4 Research Institutes. Please note, that the open-yellow lock symbol is only used within the network of the 4 Research Institutes. Authors are encouraged to submit an accepted version to DORA.
    • The closed-grey lock is used for full texts that are not available to the general public.

  • Please note that publications before 2006 get only affiliated with the institute itself but not with a specific department.

  • Some publishers make publications available free of charge to the reader (for a limited time) but do not allow any reuse of the publications. The publication is under exclusive copyright of the publisher and any reuse by other needs permission by the copyright holder. This kind of free online access is also known as gratis Open Access. Gratis Open Access removes price barriers from access to publications but it allows no uses beyond what is considered legitimate under copyright. Gratis Open Access publications cannot be re-published Open Access on DORA because of these permission barriers.

    Libre Open Access means free of charge and free of at least some permission barriers.  This means that the article is free for some kinds of further use and reuse, e.g. re-publishing the article Open Access on DORA. Permission barriers are removed by a license or statement permitting uses that would otherwise be impermissible. The open licences from Creative Commons (CC licences) are the most commonly used licences in the area of science and research. Publications licensed under a Creative Commons license can be re-published Open Access in DORA.

    Open Access is not as simple as free of charge to reader. There are many different degrees of openness between Closed Access and Open Access. The guide HowOpenIsIt? Gives a concise overview of the shades of Open Access.

  • An accepted version is the version of your publication after peer-review and acceptance, but without the publisher's formatting. Very often the publisher allows to publish the accepted version after an embargo time as open access in an institutional repository. Send us your accepted version and we will check this for you. For detailed information to Open Access (Gold road, Green road) and benefits for uploading an Accepted Version please see here.

    A submitted version is the version of your publication before peer-review and acceptance, i.e. the version you submit to the journal. Please note, we do not record submitted versions in DORA. For further details please have a look at our Content Policy.