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Research Portal Policy

The use of the Pure and the Queen's University Research Portal (Institutional Repository) is governed by the following policies:

1. The Queen's University Belfast Pure User Policy; and

2. The Queen's University Belfast Research Portal Policy.

Content added is also subject to the following licence arrangements:

1. Queen's University Belfast Institutional Repository Deposit Licence; and

2. Terms of Use Queens Research Portal.

Take down policy

The Queen’s University of Belfast Research Portal, is a digital archive which will be preserved in the long term.  Its content is made available to all via the web and normally items are not withdrawn from it.  
If there are any queries regarding a research publication in the Queen’s Research Portal, the item in question will be taken down immediately from the Research Portal and the query referred to the depositor who submitted the item. His / her employer does not admit any wrongdoing.
If you have a valid reason for requesting an item to be removed from the Queen’s Research Portal please complete the on-line removal request form.