“Open Access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles”.
The four main objectives for having an institutional repository are:
- to provide open access to institutional research output by self-archiving it
- to create global visibility for an institution’s scholarly research
- to collect content in a single location
- to store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished literature (e.g., theses)
e-publications@RCSI Institutional Repository
e-publications@RCSI is an open access institutional repository of research and scholarly output of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
The repository aims to:
- develop an open-access repository for research staff and students to deposit their academic work so it is freely available on the internet.
- aid in disseminating RCSI and related research work to a wider audience, thus increasing worldwide exposure to this work.
- provide a central archive and record of research work both for the College and for an individual researcher.
- help RCSI researchers fulfill their funding authority’s open access mandate. Most Irish funding authorities, including SFI, the HEA, the HRB and IRCSETnow have an open access mandate – this means they require submission of published work funded (in whole or part) by them to an open access repository.
The service is maintained and managed by RCSI Library. If you would like to submit your work to the repository or if you have any comments or suggestions, please contact the repository administrators.
Further information about submission is available on the Library repository policies web page.