Advantages

Depositing research in institutional repositories entails diverse benefits:  

For the researcher

• Increase the impact of research results: more citations
• Content and data reutilization
• More equitable management of copyright, allowing authors to retain ownership of rights and set the conditions of use
• Have data on the use of the contents
• Deposit all types of documents and in multiple formats

Download the brochure on the benefits for groups and research centers.

For the University

• Reflect the research activity of the institution
• Increase the visibility of the institution and improve the positioning in the university rankings and in the search engines
• Guarantee of access and long-term digital preservation of the intellectual heritage of the university

For the society

• Universal access to scientific information
• Render accounts of public investment in research
• Streamline knowledge transfer and help reduce the digital divide in access to scientific information between countries