UCLP Open Access

"UCLP Open Access means making research publications from UCL Partners freely available online via UCL Discovery Open access maximises the dissemination and visibility of research worldwide. It makes authors’ work accessible to all fellow researchers, and to society as a whole. There are no payment barriers for readers of open access publications, so everyone can read them free of charge. Now UCL Library Services, in collaboration with UCL Partners, will be supporting staff at UCL Partners’ NHS Trusts in making all types of research outputs open access – including articles, proceedings, book chapters, working papers and more: all research outputs will be eligible to be deposited in UCL Discovery, UCL’s and partners’ Open Access repository, copyright permitting. All research outputs that are deposited will also be available via Google searches since Discovery is indexed by Google. The new UCLP Open Access service via UCL Discovery is now being piloted at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The pilot will test and finetune procedures, with a proposed gradual roll-out of the functioning service to several further Trusts, all with SLAs with UCL Library Services ..."