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Publishing with Spiral

Scholarly Communication
  • Introduction to Spiral
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  • Receiving a DOI for your report
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  • Depositing a published paper in Spiral

Publishing with Spiral 1

Introduction to Spiral

Spiral is 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s open access research repository with over 90,000 items

It is a place for authors to upload journal articles and monographs as well as research for rapid sharing

Introduction to Spiral

Preparing your report

When preparing your report there are a number of things to consider

These pages will help you prepare your document for Symplectic and disseminating via Spiral

How to prepare your report

Receiving a DOI for your report

Your DOI is your Digital Object Identifier

It is a permanent link to your document

Receiving a DOI for your report

Publishing with Spiral 2

Discovering impact

All documents in Spiral are freely available online without any access barriers, so potentially anyone in the world could be reading your research.

Read on for ways to demonstrate that readers are engaging with your research.

Discovering Impact

Guide to depositing a published paper in Spiral

Follow this guide for instructions on how to upload your papers to Spiral

Guide to depositing a published paper in Spiral

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