About WIRE

Wolverhampton Intellectual Repository and E-Theses, or WIRE for short, is the University of Wolverhampton's open access collection of research outputs produced within its research centres and institutes.

Free to access and open to everyone, WIRE is a growing resource for anyone interested in the outputs of our research community, and WIRE is indexed by search engines such as Google Scholar and dedicated repository aggregators like OAIster. 

The University of Wolverhampton is committed to the principles of open access and aims to ensure that research outputs achieve the maximum economic, social and cultural impact by allowing access to the widest possible audience.

The University of Wolverhampton Open Access Publications Policy mandates the deposit in WIRE of all journal articles and conference papers published in a publication with an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). On average, WIRE receives over 30,000 article views per month, so by submitting your research output to WIRE you are increasing the accessibility of your work, thereby increasing the likelihood that your work will be cited.

How to deposit to WIRE

The way to deposit to WIRE has changed. Please select the correct option for you:

Generally, guidance would be if you are a member of staff with significant responsibility for research, it is likely you have an Elements profile and therefore should use Elements to deposit your publication.

What to submit to WIRE

Any type of research output authored by a member of the University of Wolverhampton’s research community can be submitted to WIRE, from journal articles, conference contributions and book chapters to exhibitions and digital or visual media. Journal articles and conference contributions should be submitted immediately after acceptance for publication to comply with REF open access policy. But permission may need to be sought from publishers for other publication types, such as book chapters, and longform publications like monographs, before submitting to WIRE. Contact the Scholarly Communications Team wire@wlv.ac.uk if you have any queries regarding publisher permissions for archiving book chapters and other output types.

Materials submitted to WIRE will have a creative commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND licence applied (unless otherwise advised by publisher policy) in order to be compliant with REF submission requirements. This means that the material can be shared, but not changed or used for commercial reasons and you must be given credit as the author.