The repository contains journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, books, research reports book reviews, and a few other research outputs. All of these are produced by Tate staff, research associates or PhD students.

Where a full text copy of the item is held, it is available to read and download for your own research. Sometimes publisher licence restrictions do not allow us to hold the full file; in those cases, the ‘Official URL’ link usually leads to the full item.

Research underpins much of what we do at Tate, from staging exhibitions to collecting artworks and finding out how best to care for them, and supporting our visitors to engage and learn.

Research at Tate involves a range of subject disciplines, including art history, conservation and conservation science, collection management, education and museology, as well as a variety of research methods and outputs.

Projects often bring together specialists through interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships with organisations such as museums, universities, other Independent Research Organisations and industrial partners.

Research helps us encourage new knowledge, address practical problems, develop new tools for practice, and allows us to contribute to broader debates.

Items in the repository have at least one creator or contributor who is (or who has been) a member of Tate staff.

Material not produced by or in association with Tate staff is not eligible for inclusion.

When sorted by relevance, results are displayed according to an algorithm taking account of the frequency and position of the search terms within each item and across all content. Your search term might occur in the files as well or instead of the displayed metadata.

Note you can change the display order to show search results sorted by other means.

Research outputs are made available in the Repository on terms agreed with the authors/depositors of the outputs. As a user you may use the items only if you abide by the licence or other terms under which it has been released, e.g., the terms of a specific Creative Commons Licence. Where no licence is displayed, unless indicated otherwise items made publicly available in the Repository are protected by copyright with all rights reserved.

Sometimes individual files have their own file-level licences, and these may be different for each file where there's more than one. Look for licence information at the record level and also at the file level. Licence information is only displayed where known.

Currently, all content in the Shared Repository Service is openly available and there is no login for public users. If a file you wish to view is embargoed, you must contact the relevant repository’s organisation to ask for access, please see below. Access is not guaranteed to any restricted item.

For general enquiries about the repository, use the contact form from the repository’s home page.

If you are the owner of the copyright or related rights in any of the material in the Repository and you believe that use of this material infringes your intellectual property or any other rights, or you believe that the material may be subject to a third party ownership or another legal claim, please contact us in writing as indicated in the Contact page.

To enquire about an item held in any of the other repositories, use the Contact form at the bottom of the relevant repository.

The Tate’s repository is part of the Shared Repository Service, which brings together the research outputs of a number of UK-based cultural heritage organisations. The Shared Repository Service was originally intended for IROs (Independent Research Organisations), which are non-Higher Education organisations in receipt of public funding for their research. The Service has since grown to include cultural heritage organisations that produce research but are not classed as IROs.

The Shared Repository Service provides a window on the research produced by such organisations through a single point of access and discovery.

Each partner has its own repository which can be searched separately, but you can also explore the combined content of all partners by clicking on the ‘Shared Repository Homepage’ link at the top of each page. When a search is done at this level, results indicate the organisation responsible for that research.

Our current partners in the Shared Repository Service can be found on the main Shared Repository homepage. The British Library manages the Shared Service on behalf of all participating organisations.

The platform is run on an open source software, DSpace-CRIS 9, and is hosted by 4Science.

We would be delighted to tell you more about the Tate Repository. Please use the form on the Contact page.