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The University of Houston Institutional Repository (UHIR) provides public online access to research and scholarship produced at the University of Houston. By aggregating content reflecting the scholarly, educational, and administrative output of UH faculty, students, staff, and campus units, the repository preserves and provides global access to the legacy of UH research and scholarly communication. 

1. Visibility — The UHIR provides free, worldwide access to your scholarly work and course materials. 

2. Discoverability — The UHIR is indexed by major search engines, such as Google and Google Scholar, so your works are promoted to a much broader audience. 

3. Persistent links — All works in the UHIR receive permanent digital identifiers, making it easy for others to cite reliably and increasing your scholarly impact. 

4. Preservation — The UHIR ensures long-term storage, preservation, and retrieval of your scholarly work and course material through our participation in the Texas Digital Library. 

5. Compliance with grant requirements — The UHIR complies with funding agency requirements that allow you to publish and archive your funded research outputs. 

6. Increased collaboration — Depositing your works in the UHIR allows others, locally and globally, to identify your research areas for independent study and interdisciplinary collaboration. 

7. Comprehensiveness — The UHIR accepts unpublished works, teaching materials, administrative records, and student organization documents, providing access to work that may not be traditionally published elsewhere. 

1. Current UH Affiliates  

Any current University of Houston faculty, staff, or student is eligible to deposit work in UHIR.  

2. Collaborative Works  

Multi-institutional collaborations that include at least one participant actively employed by the University of Houston are also eligible for deposit. 

All works in the UHIR are openly accessible to anyone with internet access unless restricted by the depositor; for details on such restrictions, including embargo periods, please refer to the Access and Use Guidelines.

UHIR accepts digital content that reflects the scholarly, educational, and administrative output of the university, including contributions from faculty, students, staff, and campus units. For a detailed list of accepted work types, please refer to the Content Requirements in the Collection Guidelines.

The UHIR runs on DSpace (v. 8.1), an open-source digital repository platform widely adopted by academic institutions worldwide. UHIR's implementation of DSpace is supported and managed in partnership with the Texas Digital Library (TDL).