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Graduate Research Day: Communicating your Research: Submitting your work to URRR

How to submit your work to URRR

All University of Rochester faculty, staff, and students are empowered to submit their scholarly materials our online institutional repository, the University of Rochester Research Repository (URRR). URRR is based on a product called Figshare, which is a trusted digital repository platform used by academic institutions around the world. Submissions to URRR, or any research repository, count as publications and can become part of your CV.

If you are currently affiliated with the University, you already have an account in URRR and need only to log in once to activate it and begin submitting. Simply visit by clicking on one of the URRR links on this page, or find it by navigating to the official url, rochester.figshare.edu.

Some of the many benefits of submitting to URRR include:

  • Long-term preservation of your scholarly work
  • DOIs
  • ORCID integration
  • 10 GBs of free storage
  • Support from library curators and experts
  • Usage stats
  • And more!

For detailed instructions on how to submit material, please check out our submission guide.

What is a repository?

University of Rochester Research Repository (URRR) is our Institutional Repository. A research repository is where researchers can submit or deposit their work- including data, publications, and presentations, to make their work more available and accessible. 

Submitting your work to a repository can contribute to enhancing the availability of research that is not stuck behind paywalls, contribute to openness and transparency in your field, and can support and raise your scholarly profile.

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