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. This workflow provides us directly with many important bibliometric information and does not require inputs from researchers. 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.

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

  • The primary reason comes down to copyright restrictions. Even if a publisher makes an article free to read on their website, they often retain exclusive copyright. Unless the publication is released under an open licence (such as a Creative Commons licence), DORA does not have the legal right to give free access to the published manuscript. In contrast, providing your accepted manuscript allows us to share a legally permissible version of your research.

    There is also an important difference in permanence. A publication that is free to read on the publisher’s website is not guaranteed to remain Open Access forever on this webpage; the publisher may change its access policy or move the article behind a paywall. By contrast, once a legally permitted version is made Open Access in DORA, this version will remain Open Access permanently, independently of future decisions by the publisher.

    Finally, hosting your accepted manuscript on DORA secures your work's long-term discoverability. Open Access articles in DORA are indexed by tools like Unpaywall, which integrates with major academic databases such as Web of Science and Scopus. These tools surface a single "best" open version per article. If the publisher gives access to the published manuscript, these tools will usually link to that version. However, if the publisher changes policy and the published manuscript is not longer accessible, the accepted manuscript on DORA stays available and Open Access. Unpaywall and similar tools can still point to this version on DORA, ensuring that your article remains openly available and easy to find no matter what the journal decides.

  • 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.