USIR Open Access mandate

From 1st January 2010, our Open Access mandate requires a record of all new research output to be deposited in USIR and as of the 8th June 2011 it is also mandatory for all REF submissable outputs to be included in USIR (i.e. any output of national or international significance published since 1st January 2008).

For all REF submissable outputs, and other research published in the form of peer reviewed journal articles authors should, wherever possible, retain the copyright so that the full text/documentary output can also be made available in the repository. This can be the final peer-reviewed, pre-publication version of the output, where copyright restricts the use of the published version.

The deposit of other research outputs (i.e. published, accepted for publication, or in the public domain) and in other formats is also strongly encouraged.