The University of Ulster's Institutional Repository (UIR) supports the long-term preservation of, and free access to, research outputs produced by members of the University. Staff are required to deposit the metadata on their research outputs and encouraged to deposit their actual research outputs in the UIR. By depositing work in the UIR you:

• acknowledge that the University has the right to store and preserve this work via whatever means necessary, and to make it permanently and publicly available, free of charge, online;
• confirm that, to the best of your knowledge, you have all the correct permissions to deposit this work (see the Copyright section for further information); and
• agree to comply with the University's Institutional Repository Policy.