Research Publications

About the Repository

The University Repository was launched in May 2007 to provide a digital collection of the research output of the University. It strongly encourages all University researchers to deposit their research on open access. All citation data is made available on open access and where possible the ‘full text’ of this content is also accessible. Material in the repository will conform to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and is indexed by Google (Scholar) and Summon, the Library's web scale discovery service. Data from the Repository also feeds the research output pages on the Research office’s academic staff profiles. Any University of Huddersfield member of staff, researcher or postgraduate research student, can deposit material. ('Researcher' may include visiting fellows/professors, who would also be eligible to deposit material).

Content includes:

• Papers published in peer-reviewed journals; in edited journals; in edited conference proceedings; in edited working papers series and in published monographs and book chapters
• Other textual material supporting non-textual research outputs e.g. exhibition catalogues
• Non textual research outputs e.g. artworks; recorded music, photographs, AV recordings and electronic databases
• Post graduate theses registered with the research office, unless a sponsoring body has withheld permission for commercial reasons or there are issues of confidentiality

The University Repository contains over 8,000 items of University research from as far back as 1966, much of which is available on open access to view and download.

Benefits

Benefits to the University research community

“Open access articles receive 50% more full-text accesses and PDF downloads than subscription-access articles”
Kenneth R. Fulton, PNAS Publisher

By raising the profile of our researchers by:

• Encouraging all research at the University of Huddersfield to be made publicly available and searchable
• Increasing dissemination and impact of University research output on a global scale, via search engines such as Google Scholar
• Providing a critical mass of high quality research, including non textual material such as music, art and media, through services such as EThOS, OpenDOAR, and Summon.
• Ensuring that the Repository becomes central to the University research strategy and workflows
• Providing a standardised, automatically updated format of author information for research CVs
• Creating a managed approach to research output in order to provide better management reporting, both for the REF, funders and internal practices
• Raising awareness of similar research interests, thus contributing to the further development of interdisciplinary approaches
• Enhancing the user experience for Post Graduate Research students by helping to build a University research culture and by making their theses available through EThOS in order for them to aspire to further research through external networks
• Helping to fulfil Research Council mandates
• Checking the copyright
• Long term preservation of the University’s research output

Benefits to the wider repository community

By sharing the lessons learned, most notably on:

• Increasing content by clearing non textual material for inclusion in the Repository
• Enhancing user experience by improvements to the interface and workflows allowing increased discoverability and seamless depositing of material
• Preservation issues in conjunction with the University Archives
• Publication of all new policy documents and workflows
• Sharing issues surrounding interoperability and embedding within other University systems
• Methods for sourcing metadata from external sources and providing metadata to University systems
• Input into the staff appraisal process