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1. www.le.ac.uk/library
Make your research open the Green way
Grant Denkinson
University Library
Research Festival 2014 Research Bytes 1

2. What is open access?

3. OPEN ACCESS BENEFITS
Greater visibility for your research
New audiences, wider reach and influence
New discoveries (text and data mining)

4. Green or Gold?
Your paper, your choices …
Publish in a
subscription
journal
Do nothing
(=closed access)
Deposit
manuscript in a
repository
GREEN
open access
Pay open access
fee, if applicable
Publish in an
open access only
journal
Pay open access
fee, if applicable
GOLD
open access

5. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. Open access for RCUK researchers
Questions?