Research Repository Guide: Why Deposit Content

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)

Institutional Repository Team: Midlands

Athlone Campus Library
Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
University Road,
Athlone,
Co. Westmeath.

Email:  repository@tus.ie

Institutional Repository Team: Midwest

Moylish Campus Library
Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
Moylish Park,
Limerick,
V94 EC5t.

Email:  repository@tus.ie

• 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

• 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.