Q. What is the Leicester Research Archive?

The Leicester Research Archive (LRA) is the University of Leicester's open access institutional repository. The LRA is public facing, it's purpose is to disseminate, promote and preserve the research produced at the University.

The LRA contains a diverse range of research outputs including journal articles, theses, conference papers, research data, book chapters, reports/one-off publications and more.

Almost all University of Leicester theses back to 1924 have been digitised and their full text is available to download from the LRA.

The Figshare-powered LRA research platform is managed by the Library Research Services Team. If you have any enquiries about the Leicester Research Archive please email lra@le.ac.uk