Adding research to ORCA

Research is added to ORCA in the following ways:

• The repository team bring in publications affiliated to Cardiff University staff via alerts from online bibliographic databases and publishers via the Jisc Publications Router. They then create and process records and contact authors by email if further information is needed.
• The author can email the team at orca@cardiff.ac.uk with full details of the research outputs they want to add, and a member of the team will create the record for them and add it to the repository.
• If authors prefer, they can log into ORCA and deposit their research themselves. Click here to download a PDF guide.

All items deposited will be reviewed by library staff prior to being added to ORCA.

Adding publications not produced at Cardiff University

If you would like any publications that you produced outside of Cardiff University to be listed on your profile page, these can be added to ORCA. We will prioritise adding publications from the current REF period (2021 onwards). Back catalogues can be added in the following ways:

• [Preferred] Provide a BibTex file from your previous institution’s repository. We can then import those records for you.
• Email the team with a list of the publications you wish to have added to orca@cardiff.ac.uk
• If you have an ORCID ID with a list of your publications, you can pull these into ORCA in one go via the Research Portal. Please see this short video guide for additional support.

For further advice

If you have any queries regarding adding items, please contact the repository team at  orca@cardiff.ac.uk or telephone us on (02920 8) 76123.