BURA provides a showcase for the University's research publications by making the full-text freely available via the Internet, subject to copyright permissions. Archiving on BURA is not intended to be an alternative to standard publication but is a complementary approach to disseminate Brunel's research outputs as widely as possible. As of April 2011 BURA provided free access to more than 4,200 full-text publications.

BURA is now linked to BRAD making it easier for academic staff to add content to it. When items are added to BRAD a copyright check will be carried out and items that can be added to BURA will be flagged; authors can then simply upload the full-text via BRAD.

BRAD is for staff only.