About White Rose Research Online

White Rose Research Online (WRRO) houses research outputs from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. The repository aims to:

• reduce access barriers to research output from the White Rose Consortium partners
• ensuring records are readily searchable and retrievable by providing an Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting compliant service,
• bring together material currently distributed across institutional networks (for example, articles currently linked from personal web pages)
• provide a multi-disciplinary open access platform

WRRO is part of an international network of similar services. Material in WRRO is accessed from around the world, with most users finding us through Google and other search engines.

To include your research outputs in the repository you can either:

• register on the repository (select "create account") and upload material yourself (your records will be verified by the system administrator before being made live on the repository)
• take advantage of the mediated upload service being offered by the White Rose Consortium by contacting the Project Officer (see the Contact page).

Please see the copyright information page.

What can be placed in the repository?

The emphasis of the repository is on research papers which have been or are in the process of being published. One of the main reasons for providing an open access repository is to increase access to those material which would normally be held behind a subscription barrier. Hence the emphasis on journal literature. However, a range of outputs can be deposited.

Eligible outputs should:

• have at least one White Rose author
• be published or have been accepted for publication or be "RAE type" materials for your subject area
• have copyright clearance for self-archiving (more detailed guidance on copyright is available)

In the main, the repository holds journal papers, conference papers and book chapters. However, the scope of the repository is under review. If there are additional materials you would like to deposit, please contact the Repository Officer (r.e.proudfoot@leeds.ac.uk)

Formats

Send us whatever you have! For public dissemination, we generally use PDF but for preservation purposes it is useful to have files in the "native" format - though obscure formats may pose particular preservation challenges.

Policy / Licence Documents

Notice and Take Down Policy

Deposit Licence

Metadata Policy - for information describing items in the repository.

Data Policy - for full-text and other full data items.

Content Policy - for types of document and dataset held.

Submission Policy - concerning depositors, quality and copyright.

Preservation Policy

Software

This site is powered by EPrints 3, free software developed by the University of Southampton.

JISC RepositoryNet

This repository is contributing to JISC RepositoryNet.
The aim of JISC RepositoryNet is to help form an interoperable network of repositories. It will do this by providing UK universities and colleges with access to trusted and expert information about repositories and by supporting some key services that form building blocks for a network of repositories.

History

White Rose Research Online (previously the White Rose Consortium ePrints Repository) was originally created as part of the JISC/CURL funded SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) project. A description of the project, including a list of the other Universities involved, can be found on the SHERPA web site http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/