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Make your research open the Green wayGrant DenkinsonUniversity LibraryResearch Festival 2014 Research Bytes 1

What is open access?

OPEN ACCESS BENEFITS

Greater visibility for your research

New audiences, wider reach and influence

New discoveries (text and data mining)

Green or Gold?

Your paper, your choices …

Publish in a subscription

journal

Do nothing(=closed access)

Deposit manuscript in a

repository

GREENopen access

Pay open access fee, if applicable

Publish in an open access only

journal

Pay open access fee, if applicable

GOLDopen access

How to upload your publication via IRIS

• Log on to IRIS (https://iris.le.ac.uk/login.html)

• Find your publication’s record or create a new record for it.

• Upload the full text of the publication and grant the license for our repository.

Getting others to deposit for you…

• If you have an IRIS account:– authorise others to deposit publications for you

• Email your publication to lra@le.ac.uk– You can use a secure file sharing service too

• Bring your file into the library for the LRA team

After you’ve provided the file…

• We will check the copyright policy of the publisher and then do one of these:– Make your publication available in the LRA.– Make your publication available after the

publisher embargo period.– Create a bibliographic only entry.

• We will contact you once your publication details are available in the LRA.

Open access for RCUK researchersQuestions?