About the Repository

Overview

Research at the University of Law is an integral part of learning and teaching. The University is committed to embedding research-informed practices, advancing partnership working with students, empowering student research activity, building impactful research partnerships, and championing interdisciplinary research and scholarship.

The University of Law Open Access Repository supports these values by providing open access to academic publications from across all disciplines, authored by members of the university. This ensures research is widely accessible and supports ongoing knowledge exchange.

The repository is not a comprehensive record of all research or outputs from the University of Law. It includes only works within its defined scope, where the repository can provide a means to deliver open access to the full text or equivalent content for a broad, global audience.

For further information about the University of Law, or research & scholarship at the University of Law, see the following links:

University of Law Repository Policies

Content Policy

The University of Law Repository’s primary purpose is to provide open access, in accordance with copyright and licence agreements, to research and scholarly outputs created by staff and students whilst they are affiliated with the University of Law.

Records included in the repository contain metadata (in English) describing the research output of creators affiliated with the University of Law, and full text files (multilingual). Whilst most files will be open access, access to some files may be embargoed (usually by the publisher or rights holder) until a specified date.

Records and files will indicate their version type and date, their peer-review status and their publication status.

Submission Policy

Deposit of new content to the University of Law Repository is through the Research Support Team within Library and Learning Skills. Guidance on how to deposit can be found on our web pages. Please direct any queries to us via the contact details below.

Only published research and scholarly outputs, authored or created by staff or students asserting an affiliation with the University of Law, and which are able to be deposited in an appropriate format that can be made open access from the repository (either immediately or following an embargo) will be accepted for submission to the repository.

The validity and authenticity of the content of submissions is the sole responsibility of the creator, or their delegated agent, who provides the copy of the work for deposit.

Metadata Policy

The University of Law Repository aims to ensure that outputs are described accurately and in a timely fashion as metadata becomes available. All metadata describing outputs is made openly available under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ).

Please report any errors in the metadata to a member of the Library & Learning Skills Research Support team at the contact details below.

Retention Policy

Once a record describing an output has been added to the University of Law Repository, this is considered to form part of the scholarly record and will not normally be withdrawn from public access except in exceptional circumstances (please see our Takedown Policy as below). In the very rare instance where a record is withdrawn from public view, this will not be deleted and identifiers/URLs will be retained by default.

Files attaches to an output record may only be removed from public access where we are notified of a legitimate reason for doing (examples may include a confirmed violation of copyright or plagiarism). Deposited files, once made publicly accessible, can not otherwise be changed or replaced (except where noted previously), but an updated version may be deposited.

Takedown Policy

The University has endeavoured to ensure that no material deposited in the repository (i) infringes any third-party intellectual property rights, (ii) contains sensitive data or (iii) includes content which may be regarded as defamatory. However, should you discover content in our repository which you believe infringes your statutory rights, and such content is not covered by a limitation or exception in national law, please contact us as set out below so that we can review such content:

Please contact us at research@law.ac.uk with the following information:

Your contact details.
Details of the relevant rights holder.
The full bibliographic details of the material.
The URL of the item in the University of Law Repository.
If applicable, a statement that, under penalty of perjury, you are the rights holder or are authorised to act on behalf of the relevant rights holder.
The reason for your request (i.e. you consider such content to be in breach of copyright law, privacy laws, data protection, or content to be of obscene or defamatory nature etc.)
Where intellectual property infringement is alleged, evidence of such rights (in the case of copyright infringement, a link to or a copy of the original work etc.)

Repository Content Licence Policy

All metadata describing outputs is made openly available under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ).

Outputs deposited in the repository are done so under user agreement with the author/creator who grants a perpetual, non-exclusive licence to the University of Law to hold and disseminate copies of the work for the purpose of providing access and furthering knowledge.

The full text files of outputs deposited in this repository will be available under an open licence wherever possible. The licence terms under which a file is made available will be indicated in the record metadata and indicated in the text of the deposited file itself.

Where already published under an open licence (e.g. a Creative Commons or Open Government Licence), this licence will be used.
Where a publisher explicitly requires the use of a standard licence for the sharing of the version of the work deposited in the repository, this licence will be used.
Where no licence is explicitly required by a publisher, then the work will be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence, by default (a less restrictive open licence will be considered at the author’s request).
Where no licence is explicitly required by a publisher, but where they will not allow the use of a creative commons licence, then the work will be made available under the standard optimum Open DOAR terms for re-use, as follows:

Anyone may access full items free of charge.
Copies of full items generally can be: reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided:

The authors, title and full bibliographic details are given
A hyperlink and/or URL are given for the original metadata page
The content is not changed in any way.
Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holders.

Further Information

GuildHE Research Repositories

The University of Law’s Open Access repository is built upon shared infrastructure with GuildHE Research Repositories, providing access to the work of individuals and institutions who are members of the GuildHE Research consortium.

Further information about GuildHE Research can be found here.

System Information

This site is powered by EPrints 3, free software developed by the University of Southampton.

If you would like to harvest the open access data from our repository, our OAI-PMH endpoint is https://ulaw.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/cgi/oai2

Contact Information

Any correspondence concerning the University of Law Repository should be sent to research@law.ac.uk.