University Deposit Policy for Northumbria Research Link
Northumbria University recognises its research activities and outputs as key assets and has created Northumbria Research Link, an open access repository, for all of its published / public research material.
The accepted author manuscript of all journal articles and conference papers must be available in NRL upon acceptance for publication. Further details are provided in the University Open Access policy. Deposits should be made to Pure, and the University Library will facilitate transfer to NRL.
The University Library will check copyright permissions with the authors and publishers and make full text available where permitted. The library recommends deposit of the author’s accepted manuscript version of research in print formats. Multimedia files may be deposited for non-print formats.
Rationale
The key objectives of Northumbria Research Link are:
- To facilitate exposure and access to Northumbria’s research outputs via an open access repository making it freely available to the scholarly community world wide
- To increase the use and citation of this work, with the benefits this brings both to individual researchers and the University
- To satisfy the requirements of many research funding bodies to publish research in open access format
- To provide a centrally managed record of all of Northumbria’s research output.
In order to meet these objectives it is important that the repository contains as complete a record as possible of all published / public research outputs. Failure to deposit work in Pure, and NRL, may preclude such work from inclusion in research assessments or other University systems and submissions.
Contacts
Further information may be obtained from:
