Adding Publications to the London Met Repository

The London Met Repository is designed as a single location to showcase all research publications produced by the University’s staff. Publications are made available on Green Open Access on the repository wherever possible.

All research publications produced by academic staff during the course of employment by London Met University should be added to the Repository as soon as possible after acceptance. This is particularly important for publications that fall under the scope of the REF and funder Open Access policies, including journal articles, books and conference papers. However the Repository is designed to accommodate any of the following publication types:

• Journal articles
• Books and book chapters
• Conference papers
• PhD theses
• Unpublished documents and supporting files
• Audiovisual files
• Data files

Please note it is not generally necessary to add duplicate copies of your publications created during previous employment at other universities to the London Met Repository for REF assessment purposes. This is because most publications will have been added to your previous employer's repository at the time of publication and will therefore be REF-compliant outputs already. There are occasional exceptions to this rule, so if you are in doubt please contact us as openaccess@londonmet.ac.uk to discuss the situation. 

Academic staff are encouraged to add their own publications to the repository using a self-deposit process. Details of how to do this can be found in our Institutional Repository User Guide.

All publications added to the Repository will be checked by Library Services staff before being made available publicly. This will include checking that required descriptive information is present as well as checking for compliance with the REF Open Access Policy and the publisher’s sharing and copyright policies.

All completed London Met PhD theses will be added to the Repository by the Library Services team wherever the full text has been provided by the Research and Publications Office. PhD theses will be made available on Open Access by default unless a specific request otherwise is made by the author.

Until October 2023, London Met PhD theses were automatically harvested by the national EThOS thesis service, allowing them to be discovered by other researchers. The EThOS service is unfortunately currently offline due to a cyber-security incident at the British Library in late 2023 and we do not currently have a timeframe for restoration of the service. We apologise for any inconvenience.