Open Access: Archive your Research

Much of the results of scholarly research are published in journals, only available to those who can pay for access or whose institution pays a subscription. However, authors do have the option to provide access to all by archiving the author's accepted manuscript version of their article on a institutional repository such as CORA.  This is sometimes called Green open access to distinguish it from publisher-hosted or “Gold” open access. It involves no cost to authors.

If you are a UCC researcher, you can submit your publication to CORA through your IRIS profile. IRIS is UCC's research profile system. IRIS support is available here: IRIS FAQ's 

Go to your list of outputs in IRIS and click on the red button  beside the publication you wish to upload and follow the prompts.

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Email your publication to cora@ucc.ie and we will upload it for you.

The important thing to remember is that most publishers will only permit authors to post the author's accepted manuscript version of a publication on the repository. 

After you upload your publication to CORA, we will:

• Convert it to PDF to facilitate display and preservation
• Check open access publication rights specified by the publisher
• Each publication you submit to CORA will be checked by the CORA team to ensure that your journal or publisher's policy has been met. The copyright and self-archiving policies of publishers are checked using SHERPA RoMEO, the publisher's website or if necessary by contacting the publisher
• Verify that the final draft accepted manuscript (also known as the post-print) has been deposited. If the incorrect version has been deposited, we will contact the author for the correct version
• Apply appropriate embargoes, copyright and licence statements
• Make metadata publicly available immediately
• Promote citation of and link to the official, published version.  Access to the publisher’s version may be restricted by password or payment controls set by the publisher

Different formats can be uploaded and these will be converted to pdf where appropriate. We accept the following research publications in CORA:

• Books
• Book Chapters
• Books Edited
• Book Reviews
• Journal Articles
• Conference Items
• Reports
• Government Publications written by UCC authors
• Scholarly contributions to newspapers or magazines

You can e-mail your accepted version together with a reference for the publication to cora@ucc.ie and we will archive your publication on your behalf in accordance with the CORA deposit licence.