Guide e_Buah
E_BUAH HELP
e_Buah is the institutional repository of the University of Alcala. Its purpose is to provide open access to academic and scientific material produced at the University as well as to ensure the preservation and enhance the visibility and impact of the contents generated by members of the University.
e_Buah content is organised according to Community, where each Community corresponds to a different subject area at the University of Alcala. Each Community may host unlimited Sub-Communities and Collections. Each of these Collections may in turn host unlimited items. e_Buah contents, Communities and Collections are increasing every day. Contents include papers, studies, theses, technical reports, conferences and other documents in various digital formats.
CONTENTS
The indices enable users to consult content according to selected criteria. There are five different indices: Communities and Collections, Date of Publication, Author, Title and Subject. Any of these may be used to search and retrieve information.
- Communities and Collections : This index lists Communities in alphabetical order, together with the Sub-Communities and Collections defined within each Community.
- Date of Publication : This index lists all items on e_Buah in chronological order from the oldest to the most recent.
- Author : This index lists all authors published on e_Buah in alphabetical order.
- Title : This index lists all titles published on e_Buah in alphabetical order.
- Subject : This index lists all items published on e_Buah by subject in alphabetical order.
E_Buah may be consulted by any user. However, registration is required for certain services and features.
Registration is required for users who wish to:
· Subscribe to a given Collection and receive email alerts when new items are uploaded.
· Go to the “My e_Buah” page.
· Edit their account.
Only authorised users of the University of Alcala may upload an item to a Collection.
To begin a search of the entire repository, use the bar at top left hand side, enter a keyword and click “search”.
To search within a specific Community, Sub-Community or Collection, select the location and the option to search within this Community, Sub-Community or Collection will appear.
For example, in the Collection “BUAH – working documents”:
Some advice on searching:
- Stop words : The search engine ignores certain English words that do not add value to the search, such as articles and prepositions:
“ a ”, “ an ”, “ the ”, “ in ”, “ on ”, etc.
- Truncation : Using an asterisk after a word stem will retrieve any document that begins with that stem. For instance: the search document* will retrieve “documentation”, “documentary”, “documentaries”, etc.
- Stemming : The search engine also expands words automatically with the usual endings, including plurals, tenses, etc. Continuing with the previous example, document* will also retrieve “documents” and “documented”.
- Boolean operators : These must be used in capital letters. They are useful to combine the terms of a search:
AND – This operator limits the search by locating all documents containing the words entered with the operator. For instance, the search “styles AND ceremonies” will retrieve any document that includes both words.
OR – This operator expands the search by locating all documents containing any of the words entered. For instance, “styles OR ceremonies” will retrieve any document that contains at least one of the two words.
NOT – This operator excludes the word written after it. For instance, “styles NOT ceremonies” will retrieve all documents containing the word “styles” except those also containing the word “ceremonies”. Using the minus sign will obtain the same result (“styles – ceremonies”).
- Parentheses : These are useful to combine different search terms. Boolean operators can also be used here, for instance “(sermon OR solemn) AND (styles OR ceremonies)”.
An advanced search enables users to limit the field in which they are searching and to combine the search with Boolean operators.
The “Search Scope” box at the top enables users to limit their search to a specific Community or Collection. To search the entire repository, the box should be left in its default position. Then, select the search field and enter a word or phrase in the column situated on the right. Boolean operators can be used here as described above.
The system will ask for identification before allowing access to areas requiring authorisation.
All users can register. Community authorisation is required for uploading contents and other restricted functions.
Click on “My e_Buah” or “Sign in” to register. Either option leads to the “new user” screen. After that, an email address and a password must be entered in the identification form.
The email address must include user name and domain name (not case sensitive).
E.g.
name.surname@uah.es
The box to enter the password is case sensitive.
The UAH's Teaching and Research Staff can deposit their scientific production in open access in e_Buah repository, in order to guarantee the conservation of their files in digital format, increase the visibility of their research activity and
thus comply with national and international Open Science requirements.
The publication in e_Buah repository is done from the Research Portal Login Page and as a second option it could also be done through self-archiving.
For more detailed information please read
Manual para depositar en el repositorio e_Buah las actividades del Portal del Personal Investigador (UXXI) and Biblioguía del repositorio
More information Deposit Documents
Once an item forms part of the e_Buah repository, a permanent
URL is assigned. This means that the identifier will not
change if the system is migrated to other hardware or modified
in any other way.
e_Buah ensures URL security so that the item can be safely
cited in
publications and other media. Our permanent URL
addresses are
registered with “Handle System”, a tool designed
to assign,
control and resolve persistent identifiers for
digital
objects and other Internet resources. “Handle System”
is
administrated by the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI), which employs, encourages and promotes
research in the public interest.
Access is restricted to registered and authorised users.
“My e_Buah” is a personal page maintained by each user. It can include a specific user’s list of items in the process of delivery or a list of items requiring further attention such as editing, revision or checking.
Click on “Profile” in “My e_Buah” to change user password and information.
Users can subscribe to the Alert Service in order to receive daily email notifications about new items added to Collections. Enter the Collection of interest and click on the “Subscribe to this Collection” button. Users may subscribe to as many Collections as they wish.