Researcher library resources, services and facilities
The Open Research team provides expertise, resources and services to LJMU research students and staff.
The Library is committed to helping research students and staff succeed and develop their research skills.
We offer dynamic research support tailored to your needs, plus access to vital subject resources and superb study facilities.
We support all aspects of the Open Research agenda at LJMU, helping researchers deposit to the LJMU Publications and Data Repositories and LJMU E-Theses Service. We also manage the LJMU Open Journals Service.
We deliver a range of workshops and professional events dedicated to researchers, including sessions on publishing, metrics, data management and the popular LJMU Research Cafés.
Contacting the Open Research team
- Follow us on LJMU Open Research on Bluesky.
- Read our LJMU Open Research blog.
- Email OpenResearch@ljmu.ac.uk with any research queries.
- Email LJMU E-Theses Service with any e-theses queries.
- Open research
- Benefits of Open Research at LJMU and advice on how to share your research with the community.
- LJMU open repositories
- Deposit publications and data in order to make them available to the research community.
- Open access publishing
- Ensure you meet the REF, funder and University policy requirements around open access publishing.
- Open access policies
- Find out about LJMU, REF and funder open access policies.
- Institutional open access agreements
- Discover the deals that LJMU has with publishers to reduce or cover the cost of open access publishing.
- Access LJMU Research Online
- Open access to LJMU research publications.
- Trailblazers: OA monograph initiative
- Open access monograph publishing initiative for Early Career Researchers
- Rights retention
- Benefits of retaining rights to your work, what it means, opting in, and exceptions for opting out.
- Research data management
- How to safely store and preserve access to your research data.
- Research data management plans
- How to safely store and preserve access to your research data.
- Research data storage options
- Choose the correct place to store your research data at LJMU.
- Access LJMU Research Data Repository
- Open access to LJMU research data.
- Responsible metrics
- Responsible metrics refers to the ethical and appropriate use of means of evaluating research.
- LJMU E-Theses service
- Deposit your thesis in the electronic archive of LJMU research degree theses.
- Access LJMU E-Theses collection
- Search LJMU's collection of online theses.
- LJMU Open Journals service
- Publication and hosting service for LJMU online academic journals using Open Journal Systems (OJS).