About Open Research and Rights

The Library's Open Research and Rights team works in partnership with academics and professional services team, offering a range of services to support the publishing and sharing of publications, data and other outputs arising from Brunel research with the global community.  We are committed to promoting practices that ensure research outputs are freely accessible, reproducible and reusable, working in partnership with academics and other professional services teams at the University to drive a cultural transition to open scholarship.

We help our researchers to:

• achieve greater visibility and impact for research publications and data through open access, via the University's ‘Gold’ open access funding streams and 'Green' open access via our institutional repositories
• record their research outputs, including publications, grants and media appearances in BRAD
• meet funder requirements and research integrity standards for open access and research data
• prepare data management plans for funding applications
• store, share and publish research data 
• navigate a complex publishing landscape, choosing copyright licensing for research and education
• make their research outputs open, discoverable and accessible to funders, the research community and the public, via our research repositories for publications and datasets, BURA and Brunel Figshare.

We aim to help our researchers easily adopt and embed open science good practice into the research process and further the development of a thriving open research environment. 

We understand the pressures our researchers face and aim to develop services which are easy to use and  help our world-class research to be disseminated as widely as possible for maximum benefit and impact.