Validation and publication circuit
1. Sending of the document
The researcher sends a document (working paper, PhD work, research report or project document) that meets the formal guidelines for presentation as established by the IN3 (and available only on the virtual campus). The authors take responsibility for the quality of the language in the text, which is not reviewed by the IN3.
2. Validation process
The process to validate the document is coordinated by IN3 Communication (except, obviously, if it has already been validated at origin).
Each document undergoes a process and has someone who is ultimately responsible academically:
· PhD works have to have formal approval from the thesis supervisor.
· Working papers, research reports and project documents have to have formal approval from the head of the research group.
3. Communication of the validation
The IN3's Directors assess the document presented and
a. If the result is affirmative, IN3 Communication assigns the document a code and sends it to Publications on the Internet, in unalterable PDF.
b. If the result is negative, IN3 Communication informs the author, letting them know of the corresponding reasons why.
4. Editing and publication
Publications on the Internet, once they have received the document (which CANNOT be modified in terms of content or format), takes charge of:
a. Producing access files in Catalan, Spanish and English with the title, abstract, keywords, metadata and details relating to the work.
b. Producing the corresponding HTML files, from which the PDF can be accessed.
c. Publishing the files and the PDF.
d. Indexing the document so that it can be retrieved from the UOC's portal.
e. Introducing the pertinent metadata to optimise the document's retrieval by search engines.
5. Publication on the IN3's website
Once the document has been edited fully, it is published on the UOC's portal and, likewise, on the IN3's portal, where it goes on to form part of the repository of documents that can be retrieved at any point in the future.