TUS Research@THEA: Why Deposit Content

Research@THEA is an Open Access Institutional Repository committed to collecting and providing global access to the research and scholarly output of the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS)

Institutional Repository Team: Midlands

Athlone Campus Library
Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
University Road,
Athlone,
Co. Westmeath.

Email:  repository@tus.ie

Institutional Repository Team: Midwest

Moylish Campus Library
Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
Moylish Park,
Limerick,
V94 EC5t.

Email:  repository@tus.ie

• Greater impact of scholarship
• Discoverable via search engines such as Google & Google Scholar
• Long term preservation of work
• Enhance Faculty/Department/Research Institute and TU's reputation
• Enables and encourages interdisciplinary approaches to research
• Building research and industry connections

• The Library supports ‘Green’ open access publishing.  Depositing the final manuscript version of your work in Research@THEA makes your work open access.

• Many funding agencies, both nationally and internationally, now require the grant awardees make their research findings available in Open Access e.g. Horizon2020

• Many funding agencies allow the use of research grants for the payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs) to publish in open access journals/books.