What is Liverpool Hope University's Open Access Policy?
Answer
Liverpool Hope University's open access policy requires researchers to add the full text of journal articles and conference proceedings (if published with an ISSN) to Hope's Institutional Research Archive (HIRA.)
In order to be eligible for the REF (Research Excellence Framework), these outputs should be added to HIRA within 90 days of being accepted for publication. Even where an output is published open access by the publisher (gold open access), the university requests that staff still add a version to HIRA.
For other outputs that fall outside the REF policy, such as monographs, book chapters and creative outputs, Liverpool Hope University encourages researchers to make a version of their research outputs available open access, wherever possible.