About the Repository

The University’s Publications Policy requires staff to deposit copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings into Enlighten. This policy came into effect on 22nd September 2008.

Staff may also deposit other published material such as book chapters and monographs if permission can be obtained from publishers. Repository staff can contact publishers on your behalf.

There are currently two ways of depositing your publications:

1. Self-deposit into Enlighten. This can be carried out by individual authors or by a member of staff depositing on behalf of several authors. Self-deposit requires you to:

For further information on this see how to self deposit.

2. Send an electronic copy of the full text of your publication to deposit@lib.gla.ac.uk along with brief bibliographic details. Repository staff will carry out deposit on your behalf.

Important notes

You should deposit or send your own final version of your publications, and not the publisher PDF version, as most publishers do not permit their version to be made available in repositories. This means the closest version you have to the publisher version. It can include changes made following refereeing and editing, but cannot include publisher logos, copyright statements etc.. The format of files should be either Word or PDF.

Repository staff will check all publications to ensure that publishers permit deposit in repositories, and that copyright agreements are adhered to. If the publisher of your article does not permit deposit in repositories the full text will not be made publicly available.

Common questions - further information about deposit.

Please contact deposit@lib.gla.ac.uk for further information.