USIR Mandate

The University of Salford has an Open Access Policy [pdf] which requires that, from 1st January 2010, a record of all new research output be deposited in USIR.

For research outputs which are REF submissable and/or have been published in the form of peer reviewed journal articles, authors should retain the copyright of their papers wherever possible so that the full text can also be deposited in the repository. This should be the final peer-reviewed, pre-publication version of the paper, 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.