Support for Open Research and Open Access

Welcome to support for Open Research and Open Access.

These pages describe the principles behind Open Research and the nature and significance of its practices and how to develop them. Open Research, through transparency of research processes and the increased dissemination of research outputs, is likely to be more ethical, collaborative and impactful.

What is Open Research? page gives a summary of those principles and practices with further detail in the pages following.

Contact the Open Research team for more help and information.

What is Open Research?

This page describes Open Research principles and practices, how the Library helps and how you the researchers can help develop an Open Research culture.
How Open Research practices can increase impact

Find out more about a range of open research practices that you can apply throughout the research process from the earliest stages to the publication of outputs.
Making your published papers and books Open Access

Find out more about making your published papers Open Access.
Managing your data

Find out more about managing your data at UWL.
Pre-registration of research plans, Pre-prints and Open Peer Review

Find out more about pre-registration of your research plans, pre-prints and open peer review.
Open access policy

Policy guidelines around outputs published in the UWL Repository