About our services
What is WRAP?
WRAP (Warwick Research Archive Portal)Link opens in a new window aims to create a complete record of the research outputs of the University of Warwick from its establishment in 1965 to present day.
In its 1st February 2011 meetingLink opens in a new window, the University Steering Group supported the provision of an "institutional mandate for Warwick authors to deposit publication references in the new Publications Database".
The Warwick Research Archive Project was a JISC funded repositories start-up project, under the Repositories and Preservation Programme.Link opens in a new window The project ran from 1st October 2007 until the 31st March 2009. For more information about the project and the experiences of the WRAP team please read our final reportLink opens in a new window.
What are the benefits?
- Increase the global visibility and impact of your work - include your work in one of the UK's leading institutional repositories.
- Supports the University's REF (Research Excellence Framework)Link opens in a new window submission, providing a collection of high quality records to draw upon.
- Single, secure location that links to other institutional and external systems and processes, including Symplectic ElementsLink opens in a new window and WorktribeLink opens in a new window.
- Showcases the full range of research created by the University for potential collaborators, students and investors.
- Rigorous checking of copyright policy by a dedicated team.
- Professional quality metadata (catalogue records) to describe your work.
- Provides you with a persistent identifier for your research output in the form of a digital object identifier (DOI).
- Indexed by Google to raise your academic profile.
WRAP deposit agreement
What you are agreeing to
By submitting this work you are agreeing that to the best of your knowledge you have the right to deposit this version of this work in the WRAP repository. Library staff will check publishers’ copyright agreements on your behalf, but if you are submitting the written work of a third party you must have their permission to do so.
Subject to Appendix 3 of the University of Warwick Open Access policyLink opens in a new window, WRAP will make accepted manuscripts of the article open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY 4.0 or newer). To opt out, contact when you deposit your work.
Co-authored published works can be held in WRAP with the permission of the publisher, where the publisher is the rights owner. If you are submitting a co-authored unpublished work you should have the permission of your co-authors to do this.
WRAP will provide a persistent URL to the material it hosts, however the University of Warwick reserves the right to restrict access to any item, e.g., in order to protect rights holders’ interests.
The University of Warwick also reserves the right to preserve your article as you have submitted it, and to migrate its file format (e.g., from Word document to pdf file) as required for preservation purposes. No change will be made to the content.
How we will catalogue your article (the metadata record)
Metadata librarians will endeavour to create a detailed record for your work from whatever details you provide; however, the more information you provide, the more accurate we can be. If we don’t have sufficient information we may need to contact you for additional information.
If you don’t supply a publication title then we will assume that the work hasn't reached publication stage and will catalogue and treat it as unpublished.
Access to your article
Through WRAP your work will be open access, subject to rights owners’ restrictions. If you are aware of any such restrictions, or would like to impose any restrictions yourself, please inform us of this prior to depositing your work.