What is WIRE?

About WIRE

WIRE: (Wolverhampton Intellectual Repository and E-Theses)

WIRE 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 developing research community.

Records from WIRE are harvested by search engines such as Google Scholar and dedicated repository search engines like OAIster. Evidence shows that articles submitted to repositories are cited more often than articles from subscription-only sources.

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.

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.

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).

How to deposit to WIRE

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

Staff with significant responsibility for research have Elements profiles.

Go to the Elements webpage to begin the deposit process

 Further help:

Continue to the WIRE submission form to deposit your publication

Notice: Staff should only use this form to submit publications to WIRE if they do not have an Elements profile. Staff with significant responsibility for research should go to www.wlv.ac.uk/Elements to begin the deposit process.

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 before submitting to WIRE. The Scholarly Communications Team wire@wlv.ac.uk can answer 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.

Book chapter deposit guidance

Book chapters can also be deposited into WIRE where permitted. Permission must be sought from the publisher to include the accepted manuscript version of the chapter on WIRE. Publishers generally do allow a chapter to be archived in institutional repositories as long the author’s version is used and not the final publisher version. An embargo of between 12 and 48 months is usually applied. Embargoes can be checked by the Scholarly Communications Team where necessary, contact us at WIRE@wlv.ac.uk for further guidance.