The Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) is a platform that allows researchers and academics to deposit research outputs.
You can deposit in ORA regardless of whether or not the output is published elsewhere.
Depositing your work in ORA makes it freely available for anyone to access, inside or outside the University of Oxford.
It is the simplest way to make your research open.
What can I deposit in ORA?
You can deposit research outputs such as journal articles, conference papers or abstracts, book chapters, reports, theses, datasets and other materials in ORA.
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Why should you deposit in ORA?
Depositing in ORA is free of charge for Oxford University authors. The benefits include:
- Wider dissemination of your work: ORA is crawled by search engines, so your work has greater visibility and a greater chance of being cited by others.
- Your work will stay published and available forever.
- Any work you deposit gets a permanent URL, making it easier to link to your research.
- On request, you can obtain a persistent digital object identifier (DOI) for your deposited output.
- ORA is the University’s principal tool for preparing its submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF). This means your research will count towards future funding for the University from the UK government.
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Copyright, ORA and your research
When you publish your research on ORA, it will be under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which means anyone can use your work if it is appropriately credited.
If you would like to opt out of this policy, you can do so on a work-by-work basis via our opt out online form (SSO required).
Please note that if you are funded, opting out may cause your research output to be non-compliant with your funder policy.
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