aCQUIRe

The homepage of aCQUIRe displays all published items from newest uploaded to oldest irrespective of the publication type.

• The Search Bar at the top of the page will search the entire collection. You can Filter these results by Licence, Item Type, Group and Category.

aCQUIRe also has a number of other browsing options, these are sorted from newest to oldest upload date:

• Categories shows outputs by subject area
• Group shows outputs by the CQUniversity School or Division that authors are associated with.

Signing into aCQUIRe will allow you to save favourites, edit your Figshare profile and submit large research datasets for publication.

1. Go to acquire.cqu.edu.au (Google Chrome is recommended)
2. Click the Log In link in the upper right of the page.
3. Log in using your university username and password. (RHD students will need to use their affiliate/staff account).
4. Click Yes on the authentication window (this authentication will only need to happen once).

Signing in is not required to browse CQUniversity's research outputs or to submit publications to Research Elements.

Maximise your academic reach by creating an aCQUIRe research profile.

1. Log in using the instructions above

2. Click on the bubble in the upper right corner of the page. When you first sign in in this will be your initials. In the drop down select "Profile"

You have the option of adding the following details to your profile:

• Your ORCID (This will link to your ORCID profile)
• A photo of yourself
• Job title
• Your primary research field of interest (selected from the provided drop down list)
• Your geographic location
• Links to your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles
• Biographical information

Please Note: This process is only for Open or Mediated Access datasets with files over 1GB

Prior to uploading the data to aCQUIRe you will need to submit a Data Publishing Record via Data Manager. Instructions on how to do this are available from the Data Management library guide.

Once the Data Publishing record has been submitted for review add the files in aCQUIRe using the following steps:

1. Go to aCQUIRe at https://acquire.cqu.edu.au/ 
2. Click the red Log in link in the top right-hand side of the screen.
3. Enter your university-assigned username and password and click Login.
4. Click on the Title of the dataset you need to add files to.
5. Untick the Metadata record only checkbox at the top of the pop up.
6. Upload your files. You can either:
   1. click the red browse link at the top of the page and select the files to upload.
   2. or, drag the files onto that box with the dotted border at the top of the page.
7. Wait for the files to upload. This may take some time. All files will be listed with their File Size next to their name
8. Tick Publish. You will be prompted to check the license you’ve assigned and the terms of use.
9. Click Save Changes.

If you have any questions, please email my-librarian@cqu.edu.au