Why publish on Scholarius

As an open access repository for PhD Thesis, Articles and Reports, documents made available in Scholarius will always be freely available online, from our Web site , to anyone with internet access. This means that your work will have the broadest possible audience. And recent studies have begun to suggest that open access articles get downloaded and cited more frequently. Open Access through a repository, like Scholarius, also gives the institution’s research programme worldwide visibility and increases its impact.

Now that research data are increasingly created in digital form, repositories are developing methods for collecting the data that underpin peer-reviewed articles. More and more research funders are requiring their grant-holders to make their data Open Access, once they have themselves analysed and published their findings from the data. This is in order that other researchers can use the data to verify results, to compare with their own data or to re-use in some way to generate new data and knowledge.

Because Google and the other Web search engines index the content of repositories, anyone with internet access can find themselves arriving at an article or dataset in a repository via a Web search. Putting it succinctly, Open Access publishing and availability of documents is the FUTURE of research.