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Introduction to Spiral

Spiral is Imperial’s open access research repository and holds over 68,000 items. As well as being a place for authors to upload journal articles and monographs; it can also be a home for any research that is not intended for journal publication, or research that authors wish to share more rapidly than journal publishing, or preprint platforms allow.

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How to prepare your report

If you are wishing to disseminate a report, briefing paper or working paper; there are a couple of things to think about before uploading your document to Symplectic and disseminating via Spiral.

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Receiving a DOI for your report

DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier. It’s a permanent web address which will always link readers to the document. For preserving research and ensuring access to it, a DOI is a much better option than just hosting a PDF on a website that could change or shutdown over time.

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Discovering Impact

All documents in Spiral are freely available online without any access barriers, so potentially anyone in the world could be reading the research. Read further for ways to demonstrate that readers are engaging with the research.

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