Upload a File

This page is used to transfer a file from the local file system of the computer you are using around the Internet to the server where it may be accessed by others (=upload). If you wish to upload more than one file at a time, consider making a zip file of those files and uploading the zip file - this can be automatically expanded once uploaded (see the relevant instructions). Please read the instructions and warnings below before you use this page to upload a file. By uploading this file you accept liability in respect of copyright authorisation (see details below).

• Instructions: single file.
• Instructions: zip file.
• Accessibility check.
• Copyright.
• Viruses.
• Offensive Material.
• File & folder names.

Instructions: single file

• Make certain that the file you want to upload is not open in another window.
• Press the browse button.
• In the dialog box that appears use the appropriate control to view files of all types.
• Use the dialog box to select the file you want to upload and then press the OK button. (The file name should appear in the box next to the Browse button on this page.)
• Select the "Upload" button.
• If you see an error message seek help.

Instructions: zip file

• Prepare a ZIP archive using a tool such as WinZip.
• Press the browse button above.
• Select the ZIP file you want to upload and then press the OK button.
• To have the ZIP file automatically expanded on upload, select the expand this zip file checkbox.
• To have the ZIP uploaded "as-is" (not expanded), simply leave the expand this zip file checkbox unchecked.
• Press the "Upload" button.
• If you see an error message seek help.

Accessibility check

Before you upload, please make sure the material you are uploading is accessible. For more help on this see our short accessibility guide.

Warnings

Copyright

It is your personal responsibility to verify that you have permission from the copyright holder to upload the file(s) to this web site. Text graphics and other media files may all be subject to copyright control. The system administrator(s) of this web site accepts no liability for any breach of copyright you commit but reserves the right to delete files which it suspects might breach copyright law.

The following list of points includes some of the ways in which you might possess authorization over the uploaded file with respect to copyright.

• Being the copyright of the University.
• Being the copyright of the creator of this resource.
• Being CLA material licensed for digitizing (from material owned by the University).
• With permission and payment under another scheme.
• With specific written permission of the rights holder(s).
• With explicit permission of the rights holder(s) (copyright waived) (this would include Creative Commons, Copyleft, etc).
• Being out of copyright.

Viruses

It is your personal responsibility to verify that the file you intend to upload does not contain a virus. OUCS will make efforts to detect and delete infected files but will accept no liability for the consequences to users of viruses that escape detection.

Offensive Material

College regulations on use of the Internet apply equally to the use of this site to publish material. Authors should make proper use of access control where material is essential to study for some students but may be offensive to others (for example, some images for use by human biology students may fall into this category).

File and Folder Names

• No forward or backward slashes are allowed in file names.
• Names are normally restricted to 250 character long. (Certain names must be shorter.)
• Upper and lower case letter are preserved but a web addresses using differing case will still work.
• If you upload a file to the same folder as a file whose name differs only in case that file will be overwritten by the uploaded file. E.g. if MyFile.html already exists and you upload myfile.html the second file will replace the first file.
• It is acceptable for your file name to contain space characters but the web address of the uploaded file will replace spaces with + characters because web addresses must not contain spaces.
• Web addresses should normally stick to alphabetic, numeric, hyphen, underscore and dot characters. Other characters in your file name are acceptable but in the web address of your uploaded file these characters will be coded using a sequence like '%nn' where nn will be a two character code for the replaced character.
• There is a restriction of 250 on the length of the name of your file after special characters have been encoded. Since encoding increases the length of a file name there may be cases where a file that seems to fit the restrictions cannot be uploaded because its coded name is too long.
• For technical reasons you cannot use file names that start with the sequence "bs_template_".
• Please note that you can't use the upload dialog to rename your file before uploading - if you need to do this, do that in your operating system before you use this form .