The University of Lodz Repository is an institutional repository whose purpose is to disseminate the scholarly output of its staff and promote research conducted at the UL. It is an archive of its own electronic documents – each deposited publication or collection of research data is given a permanent identifier (handle), enabling the document to be cited and indexed in scientific databases.
Materials are deposited in specific collections, such as research articles, book chapters, academic journals, doctoral and postdoctoral theses, conference materials, and teaching materials.
An employee or a doctoral student of the UL may become a depositor – authorisation of documents is performed each time by the repository administrator. By depositing their documents, the author approves the non-exclusive licence applicable at the University of Lodz.
Access to the collection – to the metadata and to the full texts of the deposited documents – is by definition open to all interested parties. In the case of doctoral and postdoctoral theses, the degree of openness (open to all/open on the UL network/open only in the Reading Room of the UL) is decided by the author.
Documents can also be granted Creative Commons licences.
Benefits for authors
- Increased visibility of scientific output –publications and research data deposited in repositories are indexed by scientific databases and search engines, such as Scopus, Google Scholar or Scirus.
- Increased citability – the inclusion of papers in open access contributes to citability.
- Easy citation and data security – the handle identifier ensures that papers have a permanent place on the web.
- Possibility to create a digital scientific CV – access to full texts that can be referred to in your CV, which is an additional asset when applying for research grants.
- Reduced time to publish research results – approval of documents in the repository takes much less time than the publishing process, and the results are immediately available to the public.
- Knowing the extent of one's work – the repository makes it possible to see the statistics of deposited texts.
- Verification of one's scientific profile – the possibility of linking an author account with an ORCID ID increases the researcher’s credibility.
- Supporting the teaching process – easy and widespread access to open educational resources.
Benefits for the university
- Promoting research conducted at the university and increasing the potential of research staff.
- Increasing the prestige of the institution by making the research output visible.
- Supporting teaching with easy access to educational materials for students.
- Promoting university activities.