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Research Repository Guide: Why Deposit Content

Institutional Repository

Library Statement on TUS Research Repository

TUS Research Repository is an Open Access Institutional Repository committed to collecting and providing global access to the research and scholarly output of the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS)

Why deposit content in TUS Research Repository

  • Greater impact of scholarship
  • Discoverable via search engines such as Google & Google Scholar
  • Long term preservation of work
  • Enhance Faculty/Department/Research Institute and TU's reputation
  • Enables and encourages interdisciplinary approaches to research
  • Building research and industry connections
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General Information

  • The Library supports ‘Green’ open access publishing.  Depositing the final manuscript version of your work in TUS Research Repository makes your work open access.

  • Many funding agencies, both nationally and internationally, now require the grant awardees make their research findings available in Open Access e.g. Horizon2020

  • Many funding agencies allow the use of research grants for the payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs) to publish in open access journals/books.

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