Open Access & the REF

Open Access resources may be useful to your research and can be found via sites such as Google Scholar. Find more Open Access resources on our Open Access Resources page. There is now an HEFCE REF (Research Excellence Framework) requirement for researchers to make their research outputs Open Access through repositories such as WIRE (Wolverhampton Intellectual Repository and E-Theses).

Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. Includes journal articles, theses, books, abstracts. Links to possible full-text sources are appended to some references: "Wolverhampton Uni Links"; these do not produce full text in every case
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OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources.
OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is an authoritative worldwide directory of academic open access repositories.
WIRE
WIRE is an open access online collection of research outputs by members of the University of Wolverhampton.
ORCiD ID
ORCID IDs are permanent identifiers for researchers, providing you with a unique, 16-digit numeric identification number that lasts over time.
CORE
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers. It provides free to read access to over 76 million full text papers harvested from institutional, subject and preprint repositories as well as gold and hybrid open access journals.
DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.