Information for Researchers

nzresearch.org.nz is a collection of metadata records harvested from New Zealand.s institutional repositories. The metadata is harvested each night, and used to build this website. No documents are stored at nzresearch.org.nz.

How to participate

If you are a researcher at one of the Institutions listed on the Institutions page, and you want your research to appear on nzresearch.org.nz, then all you have to do is load your documents into your institutional research repository.

To find out more about your repository, go to the nzresearch.org.nz page describing your institution and click on the Research Repository Homepage link. This will take you to your institution's research repository, which should have a Contact page or About page that will tell you how to start contributing your documents.

Once your documents are loaded into your institutional repository, they will be picked up by our nightly harvests and start appearing in nzresearch.org.nz.

What to do if your institution doesn't have a research repository

If your institution doesn't have a research repository, we suggest you ask for one. Start by asking in the Library. You never know what you might achieve.

How to fix errors on nzresearch.org.nz

If you find an error in the metadata on nzresearch.org.nz, such as a misspelled title or name, then it usually means that there is an error in the original metadata record that nzresearch.org.nz has harvested.

The best way to fix it is to follow the link from nzresearch.org.nz back to your institutional repository and confirm that the error appears in the source repository. You should then follow your institution's procedure for updating records. You may be able to log in and do this your self, or you may have to email a repository administer and request a change (if you do have to do this, make sure you make a note of the document's Identifier or URL.

Once your document metadata is corrected in your institutional repository, it will be picked up by our nightly harvests and appear correctly in nzresearch.org.nz.