What is an institutional repository? Each Australian university has at least one institutional repository to preserve and provide open access to their research outputs. At Griffith, we have two repositories: Griffith Research Online (GRO) for our journal articles, conference papers, books, reports, patents, datasets and software; and Creative Works for our creative research.
Here are five reasons to love your institutional repositories:
1. Get around the paywall
Publishing non-open access? Most publishers allow you to make your accepted manuscript freely available via—you guessed it—your institutional repository! Sharing your accepted manuscript on GRO opens your research to more (and more diverse) opportunities for citations and impact, as well as helping you to comply with funder open access mandates (for example, ARC, NHMRC).
2. Outsource the work of sharing your research
The Library reviews each research output that enters our repositories. Once you send your research output to GRO, the team ensures accurate publication details and compliance with publisher copyright policies, so you don’t have to. For Creative Works, the team provides support to help you best showcase your work.
3. Make your research easy to find
Griffith’s repositories are indexed by Google and TROVE—with GRO also indexed by Google Scholar and Unpaywall—to make sure your research is where people are looking. Did you know that they are also integrated with Griffith Experts? With your research in GRO or Creative Works, anyone browsing your Griffith Experts profile can easily view or download your research.
4. Preserve your work
Have you ever tried to access a conference paper from a few years ago only to find the website doesn’t exist anymore? GRO preserves research at risk of disappearing, like conference outputs and reports, so that they can continue to make an impact.
5. Showcase creative research
From exhibitions to musical compositions to animations and more, Creative Works showcases the spectacular range of creative research at Griffith. Creative Works helps make your creative research and its impact visible and able to be cited by other researchers.
The Library is here to help you make your research open and visible. Learn more about how to deposit to GRO or the process for submitting to Creative Works. For further information, contact the Library.
