RiverRun is the University of New Brunswick's digital repository, designed to hold, index, preserve, and make available digital assets created by members of the UNB community. The collection is being built by the university community for our own use and to help provide access to the materials for a wider audience over the Internet. RiverRun is divided into departmental communities, with sections in each for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. The Electronic Text Centre at the Harriet Irving Library maintains the repository using DSpace software.

There are many benefits to depositing resources into RiverRun. The repository:

• helps administration showcase research carried out at our university;
• provides a home for your papers with permanent, unbreakable URLs;
• allows the storage of datasets, illustrations, and other related files along with publications;
• makes scholarship visible to a wider audience through popular search engines such as Google and Google Scholar;
• improves citation numbers. Many studies have shown that publications available over the open web receive more citations than those offered only through paid journal subscriptions;
• provides easy access to your work for use in the classroom, or when away from your office;
• comes with a support staff to help you through the process;
• provides speedy dissemination of new ideas; and
• encourages scholarly collaboration.

The repository is managed by Geoffrey Allen, Digital Projects Librarian, Electronic Text Centre (506) 447-3250. You can also contact your UNB faculty liaison librarian for assistance if you wish. For more information about the Electronic Thesis and Dissertations program please visit the School of Graduate Studies ETD page.

All members of the UNB community may deposit into RiverRun. The content in the repository is restricted to that which has been created at least in some part by members of the university community. Papers co-authored elsewhere may also be deposited provide that at least one author is from UNB. Graduate thesis and dissertations are managed through the School of Graduate Studies. Student contributions must be part of a larger collection, and sponsored by a faculty member.

RiverRun is intended to hold scholarly materials developed by members of the UNB community. These may include prior publications, lecture notes, technical reports, datasets, and a wide range of other materials that you may wish to share with others.

In general the repository is intended to warehouse scholarly materials that you wish to share with a wider audience. It is not meant to house ephemeral items, or those undergoing regular revision.

The DSpace repository software is designed to handle a wide range of digital assets including text, image, video, and audio files. It is most comfortable with text-based objects.

Copyright for all materials in RiverRun remains with the current copyright owner (except for works available in the public domain, i.e. from an author now deceased a minimum of 50 years).

Yes. Items and collections in RiverRun may be set as "invisible" or with access restricted to a certain group of people (i.e. the UNB community, members of a research committee, etc.) Restricted access can be for an indefinite period, or set as an embargo for a given time (12 months, for example) to meet publishers' or funders' agreements. For more information on restricting access to items in your collection, please contact Geoffrey Allen.

The Electronic Text Centre is committed to developing RiverRun as a representative citation database for all faculty members at UNB. We will continue to build the citation listings by department over time. If you would like to provide a complete listing of recent publications to Geoffrey Allen at the ETC, we will work to ensure that your citation list is as complete and accurate as possible. Please notify us if you see errors in the data listed in your faculty collection.

All faculty members are provided with administrative control over their own collection, meaning that they may also add, correct, or remove items from their collections.

In general, we discourage the removal of items from RiverRun. Once items have been made publically available, people may cited them or link to the pages using the permanent URLs. Removal of the items may create broken links and invalid citaitons, and should be avoided.

The ETC and UNB Libraries reserve the right to remove content posted in violation of copyright or licensing agreements should a complaint be brought to our attention.

We encourage faculty to attach a full-text file of their articles to the citations wherever possible. To attach a file:

1. log into RiverRun using your UNB ID and password;
2. navigate to the citation in your collection to which you wish to add a file;
3. in the menu on the right, click on "Edit this item" under Administer;
4. select the "Item bitstreams" tab;
5. click on the "Upload a new bitstream" link in the table of files;
6. use the Browse button to find the file on your computer;
7. enter a description of the file (if you wish);
8. hit the "upload" button.

The new file should now appear in the table of files associated with the record. You may now return to your collection to attach another file elsewhere, or log out of RiverRun if you are done.

We recommend that faculty covert their files to PDF before uploading, a process made simple on most computers today.

A pre-print (a.k.a. submitted work) is a copy of the manuscript as originally sent to the publisher. The pre-prints is the version of the paper prior to peer-review and any final edits.

A post-print (a.k.a. accepted work) is the version of the manuscript including peer-review and final editing as recommended by the publisher's editorial board. The content, though not layout, may be identical to final publication. This is the format that many publishers prefer their authors to post at institutional repositories.

The publisher's PDF (or the published work) is the final printed version including publisher's layout and added features exactly as it appears in print.

The ETC is happy to assist with the building of a collection. Beyond building the citation lists, upon request we will:

• upload items of your behalf,
• organise collections,
• create high quality metadata for the items in the collection,
• investigate copyright and licensing rights,
• provide assistance meeting research funder mandates,
• and add images to the collection homepage.

By uploading a file to RiverRun you are agreeing to the limited licence allowing UNB to store an electronic copy of your work, and make it available to others over the Internet (unless a non-standard agreement is negotiated in advance). The text of the default licence may be found here.

Most content in the collection is made openly accessible over the Internet to anyone interested. Some items in the collection have their access restricted to a limited group of users, such as only members of the UNB community. To access these materials, users must first log into their RiverRun accounts.

The content of RiverRun is indexed by major search engines, such as Google, and may therefore be discovered through a range of other search portals.

After clicking on the Login link from any page of RiverRun, UNB staff and students may log into the collection using the same UNB ID and password that they use for all other campus technical services.

Any user may also register for an account for the collection. Permissions for non-UNB users must be negotiated by contacting the repository manager, Geoffrey Allen.