White Rose University Consortium

The White Rose University Consortium is a strategic partnership between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. It was established in 1997 to add value to the partner universities through collaboration in research, teaching and knowledge exchange.

Please visit the White Rose University Consortium site for more information about the collaboration. Some key projects are:

• White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities
• White Rose Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
• White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) in Mechanistic Biology
• White Rose Industrial Physics Academy

White Rose Libraries Collaboration

The Library Services of the the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York have collaborated as White Rose Libraries since 2004. This has allowed them to pool resources and expertise to deliver a range of initiatives, and also react to the changing HE landscape in a coordinated way.

White Rose Libraries run a number of Open Access systems and services providing full-text content:

• White Rose Research Online - research outputs including journal articles, books, book chapters, working papers, conference papers, discussion papers.
• White Rose eTheses Online - doctoral level theses
• White Rose University Press - peer-reviewed, fully open access academic journals and books, across a wide range of academic disciplines

White Rose Libraries were recognised as the ‘Outstanding Library Team’ in the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards, 2018.