UEA Digital Repository FAQ

Introduction

To collect the research output from UEA, increase its visibility and make it available to a wider audience via the web. The repository stores publication data and, where copyright permits, full text.
Other repositories may also collect teaching materials, or share earlier versions of papers internally.

To make them internationally available
To increase the impact of your work
To meet funder requirements (eg UK research councils require that research results are made openly available)
To be found easily via Google and other search engines as well as specialised scholarly search engines such as OAIster
To preserve the digital copy in the longer term

There have been rare examples of people trying to resell theses without the permission of the copyright holder.
The University of East Anglia takes protection of its, and its authors’, intellectual property, including copyright in its works and rights to its trademarks very seriously. We ask staff and students, past and present, who are aware of any UEA PhD theses for sale without permission on Amazon or where you identify any publication reuse over which you have concerns, to please complete our notification form

If you are a member of UEA academic or research staff, you can deposit your research using PURE. For help with using PURE to update your publications, please contact openresearch@uea.ac.uk .

There are 2 options - simple or advanced.
The advanced option allows combination of terms such as author and keyword. It will also permit you to find specific categories of records such as all items by an author and/or School.

Where an output is made available, it can be accessed by anyone with access to the internet, subject to the UEA Digital Repository’s Terms and Conditions. Some outputs may be under embargo (access temporarily restricted to Repository Administrators only) until a given date, and some items are deposited as closed access, though this is rare.

For details of how to manage your copyright, see guidance in Copyright for Staff library guide.

You can use EPrints to search for research publications. Uploading publications to EPrints is now managed using PURE.

All authors have a responsibility to ensure that publications are uploaded to PURE. However, it is expected that in the majority of cases this will be done by the corresponding author or the main UEA author.

For more information on Repository Policies, visit the Repository policies page.

If you have any queries, please contact openresearch@uea.ac.uk.