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Spiral provides permanent, open access to publications, unlike external pages that can close, add paywalls, or break links.

Impact metrics including the download numbers and reports from Altmetric, a service that identifies online attention to academic works, are available 

Authors will receive credit for the work in their Imperial Symplectic profile, as well as external profiles like  and Google Scholar. Publications will also be automatically sync with Imperial authors' ORCiD profile through Symplectic.

A Spiral handle (e.g. ) will be assigned, which is a permanent link that will direct readers to the Spiral record. Research deposited to Spiral will be permanently archived, whereby digital copies of the work will be preserved and accessible to the public for the long term 

A permanent identifier will be assigned which is a permanent and identifiable URL that is widely used across academic publishing. For theses and reports a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) e.g. ) will be assigned additionally which makes it easier for readers to find the publication online. 

With a DOI the publication and citations to it are more likely to be counted by services such as  

Depositing to Spiral will ensure compliance with the REF, funder OA policies and Plan S*

 To track online attention to a specific output, Altmetric requires an identifier (e.g., DOI, Handle). Without it, mentions can’t be reliably matched to your item.

Searching and matching policy citations using DOIs is the gold-standard method; it avoids name/URL ambiguity.  

DOIs/Handles provide persistent links that don’t break when URLs change, improving discovery and enabling tracking across systems.  

Globally unique, persistent identifiers are foundational for making research findable and trackable by machines.  

Repository aggregators (e.g., CORE) depend on standards and stable identifiers for reliable indexing and downstream discovery.