Publishing with 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.

These types of documents are mostly reports, briefing papers or working papers. They present some original research, data or expert opinion to be shared with readers. Some examples include:

 

Example reports

blue triangles forming a point and report title: NHS Data: Maximising its impact on the health and wealth of the UK

NHS Data Report

The Institute of Global Health Innovation produced this report, NHS Data: Maximising its impact on the health and wealth of the United Kingdom

Read the report on Spiral

front page from the Report 9: Impact of a non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand. With authors names included and funders and correspondence email

COVID-19 Modelling reports

The Faculty of Medicine have produced this report, Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand

Read the report on Spiral

front page of a report with the title Smart surfaces to tackle infection and antimicrobial resistance

Smart surfaces report

The Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering have produced this report, Smart surfaces to tackle infection and antimicrobial resistance

Read the report on Spiral

Spiral performs no peer review. It is a platform to quickly publish research authors consider appropriate to share without peer review or to share research ahead of peer review performed by a journal.

Benefits of Spiral

  • Publications deposited to Spiral are made permanently available online, with no log in or access barriers
  • Same day publication speed
  • A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) will be assigned, this is a permanent and identifiable URL that is widely used across academic publishing. The DOI makes it easier for readers to find the publication online
  • With a DOI the publication and citations to it are more likely to be counted by services such as Google Scholar
  • Authors will receive credit for the work in their Imperial Symplectic profile, as well as external profiles like ORCiD and Google Scholar
  • Impact metrics including the download numbers and reports from Altmetric, a service that identifies online attention to academic works, are available