Library FAQs

In order to be eligible for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF), the final peer-reviewed manuscript of any article in a journal or conference proceedings with an ISSN published after 1 April 2016:

• must be deposited in SHURA- you do this by uploading the output to Elements
• must be deposited with three months of the date of acceptance

You must also provide proof of the date of acceptance, usually in the form of an email from the journal editor or conference organiser.

For more information please see our pages:

• Open Access and the REF
• Elements
• or contact  library-research-support@shu.ac.uk