Publish open access

Open access is about making your research available to anyone, anywhere, removing paywalls and barriers. Instead of your work being locked behind subscriptions and institutional logins, open access publishing puts your peer-reviewed scholarly papers freely available on the internet, allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or share. 

It’s now becoming standard for funders and publishers to expect research outputs (like datasets) be open too, so that datasets are available to other researchers. 

Why publish open access

• Raise your researcher profile 
• Meet funder requirements 
• Increase your research impact and opportunities for collaboration  
• More transparent data analysis and interpretation
• It’s free for you, so you don’t need to pay Article Publishing Charges (APCs) 

Types of open access 

There are different ways to publish your work open access. These include:

• • Gold open access: publishing your work in an open access journal.
  • Hybrid open access: publish in a journal where some articles are on a paid subscription basis, and others are freely available. 
  • Green open access: depositing an open access copy of your published work in an open access repository.