The university has set up an Institutional Repository where staff and researchers are encouraged to deposit electronic copies (known as eprints) of articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

For each article in the repository there is a bibliographic record describing the article (author, title, publication details etc). Each record has been checked by a research administrator in the author's school, department, or research group.

Authors are also encouraged to deposit the full-text of their articles and to make these openly accessible to other researchers. Many publishers now permit this as long as there is no commercial gain involved.

It is important to stress that the repository is not a publication channel in its own right. It simply provides better access to the peer-reviewed literature, according to the principles of open access.