To be eligible for submission to the next REF, publications accepted from 1 April 2016 must have been deposited in an open access repository.

It is best practice to deposit in UCL Discovery as soon as your work (journal articles, conference proceedings, books and book chapters) is accepted for publication. Outputs not deposited within 3 months of publication cannot be submitted to the REF.

Find more information and help (including funding for Gold Open Access).

UCL Research IT Services (RITS) organise regular informal events where you can learn about useful tools and techniques which will help with your research while meeting other students and staff who use computers for science. Each event features a short talk followed by informal discussion over pizza and drinks.

The last event focused on geospatial data. Rachel Alegre presented her collaboration with the UCL Energy Institute on the ShipViz project . You can read about it on the RITS website.

The next event will take place on the 20^th of April. We will hear about sensitive data. Register now.

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