ePrints Repository

The University of Huddersfield ePrints Repository was the electronic archive of University’s research outputs from 2007 until 2017.

In December 2017, Pure became the University’s research repository for Academic staff and from September 2022 research outputs (including PhD theses) by Postgraduate researchers will also be added to PURE.

Outputs from other University staff can still be added to ePrints.

Benefits to the University research community

“Open access articles receive 50% more full-text accesses and PDF downloads than subscription-access articles”
Kenneth R. Fulton, PNAS Publisher

By raising the profile of our researchers by:

• Encouraging all research at the University of Huddersfield to be made publicly available and searchable
• Increasing dissemination and impact of University research output on a global scale, via search engines such as Google Scholar
• Providing a critical mass of high quality research, including non textual material such as music, art and media, through services such as EThOS, OpenDOAR, and Summon.
• Ensuring that the Repository becomes central to the University research strategy and workflows
• Providing a standardised, automatically updated format of author information for research CVs
• Creating a managed approach to research output in order to provide better management reporting, both for the REF, funders and internal practices
• Raising awareness of similar research interests, thus contributing to the further development of interdisciplinary approaches
• Enhancing the user experience for Post Graduate Research students by helping to build a University research culture and by making their theses available through EThOS in order for them to aspire to further research through external networks
• Helping to fulfil Research Council mandates
• Checking the copyright
• Long term preservation of the University’s research output

Benefits to the wider repository community

By sharing the lessons learned, most notably on:

• Increasing content by clearing non textual material for inclusion in the Repository
• Enhancing user experience by improvements to the interface and workflows allowing increased discoverability and seamless depositing of material
• Preservation issues in conjunction with the University Archives
• Publication of all new policy documents and workflows
• Sharing issues surrounding interoperability and embedding within other University systems
• Methods for sourcing metadata from external sources and providing metadata to University systems
• Input into the staff appraisal process