Rapid & Transparent Publishing

Rapid & Transparent Publishing

NIHR Open Research complements the NIHR Journals Library. Together they ensure findings from all NIHR funded research are publicly available.

NIHR Open Research enables researchers to make available to everyone the findings of their projects not published elsewhere.

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  • Enables researchers to publish any research they wish to share, supporting reproducibility, transparency and impact
  • Uses an open research publishing model: publication within days of submission, followed by open invited peer review
  • Includes citations to all supporting data, enabling reanalyses, replication and reuse
Benefits for Research and Society
  • All types of research can be published rapidly: traditional narratives, data sets, null results, protocols, case reports, incremental findings and more
  • Enables others to build upon new ideas right away, wherever and whoever they are
  • Reduces the barriers to collaborative research and reduces research waste through data sharing, transparency and attribution

The NIHR funds research across a wide range of fields including public health, clinical evaluation, intervention development, health services and social care.

Information on all NIHR-funded research is available through the NIHR Funding and Awards website.