UWA researchers can create records for Non-Traditional Research Outputs (NTROs) in the UWA Profiles and Research Repository following the steps on the Create NTRO record tab of this guide.

1. Create an NTRO record in the Repository
2. Upload verification materials for the Library and Audit Panel to review in the "Other files" field

Optionally, UWA researchers can also choose to make their NTRO available online via UWA Collected; see Open Access NTROs.

UWA Library is now running a pilot to offer researchers the option to make their NTROs available online through UWA Collected. Making your research output available online has the potential to increase research impact through greater visibility of your work and enables you to measure engagement with your research output.

About UWA Collected: UWA Collected is The University of Western Australia’s digital asset management and preservation system for our University collections. UWA Collected stores, manages, preserves and makes available digital collections to ensure the security and longevity of University collections and share these with students, staff and the general public.

While there are other online platforms you could share your NTRO on, like YouTube or Vimeo, these sites do not offer long-term storage solutions and there is no guarantee that your work will remain accessible into the future. They also offer limited ability to track usage of, and engagement with, your research.

When an NTRO is entered into the UWA Profiles and Research Repository, Library staff will mint a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the work.

DOIs, as unique and persistent identifiers for research works, have a number of important benefits:

• Ensuring that the digital object can be consistently and reliably identified, accessed and referenced over time even if its location changes.
• Tracking of citations and mentions of the work across the internet by creating reliable connections between the object and its use. This includes citations in Wikipedia, mentions on social media, mentions in government/policy documents, references in news media, as well as formal academic citations. Metrics like these allow you to gather evidence of the impact of your work.

Note that research outputs cannot be deleted or have major edits made to them once they have been assigned a DOI and published. Minor spelling errors in the metadata description in the UWA Profiles and Research Repository, or UWA Collected, may be corrected upon request. Additional file uploads are not permitted after publication of the research output.