About the Repository

UM Research Repository is an open access digital archive containing the details of published and unpublished research work produced by the University of Malaya staff and researchers. It has been established to provide a deposit service for the academic staff and researchers. It is an initiative of the UM Library.

Where possible the details of each item described in the archive will include a link to a freely available electronic copy of the full text or other electronic documentation of the research output.

Benefits of depositing research

By storing and making available our research outputs via the Research Repository we will be helping the worldwide scholarly research community to discover and retrieve the work of University of Malaya researchers.

Advantages for researchers

Wider dissemination
E-print repositories enable free worldwide web-based access to research outputs.

Increased impact
Studies show that research deposited in open access repositories have considerably increased impact as citation rates rise.

Increased visibility of research
UM Research Repository conforms to the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) standards. This means that research deposited here has a higher ranking by search engines such as Google and that deposited research will be harvested and indexed by specialist services such as OAIster.

A showcase for research
The repository provides a means to bring together your research output. The repository can be linked from your research centre or faculty web pages.

Policies

Please see the policies page.

How To Contact Us

Any correspondence concerning this specific repository should be sent to eprints@um.edu.my

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