Submitting Electronic Documents

As mandated by the Official Code of Georgia Annotated 20-5-2, state agencies are required to submit documents produced in all formats, including electronic, to UGA Libraries, the official Georgia government publications depository.

In order to fulfill depository requirements, electronic documents may be submitted to UGA Libraries as PDFs. If submitting an audio file, various file formats are accepted. Please contact gadocs@uga.edu for specific file types.

Electronic documents can be submitted via FTP or email.

Please follow these procedures to submit electronic documents via FTP:

• To obtain a user ID and password for access to the ftp server send an e-mail to gadocs@uga.edu
• FTP documents to the following server: ftp://govdftp.galib.uga.edu
• After signing in with the user id and password obtained via the above e-mail address, set the transfer mode to BINARY and upload to the current directory.
• Send an e-mail to gadocs@uga.edu to notify the Map and Government Information Library that a file has been sent.
  Include the file name(s), title of document, agency name, place of publication, and publication date.
• The Map and Government Information Library contact will send an acknowledgement via email.

Alternatively, electronic documents can be sent via email to gadocs@uga.edu.

If you would like to make other arrangements for depositing electronic documents, please contact gadocs@uga.edu.