Open Access refers to the use of digital technology to make access to publicly funded research results freely and widely available to anyone with an internet connection.
Some forms of Open Access remove the barriers created by subscription paywalls where research results are only available via a subscription.
Monash researchers can utilise library Read and Publish agreements to publish papers Open Access without paying article processing charges (APCs).
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Researchers submit to a journal and then self-archive the author manuscript version in an Institutional Repository (e.g. the Monash myResearcher Pure repository). Check Open Policy Finder to see publisher embargo restrictions on when a self-archived output in a repository may be made open access. If it cannot be made immediately available, then you may need to self archive with rights retention (see below).
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Researchers publish in Open Access journals which usually involves a fee for providing freely available immediate access to the final version of the article. Hybrid Open Access occurs when a journal typically requires a subscription but will provide Gold Open Access to an article if the author pays a fee. |
Self archiving with rights retention means that you include a rights retention statement at the time that you submit your manuscript for publication. The text to include is:
"This research was funded in whole or part by the [Funder name] [Grant number]. For the purposes of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission".
This text may be added to the Funding section or the Acknowledgements section in your manuscript.
You can then upload your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version in an institutional repository such as Monash’s My Research portal (PURE).
Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory of open access journals. DOAJ is a valuable resource for assessing the quality of open access journals, as inclusion requires meeting stringent criteria around transparency, editorial standards, and publishing practices.
For a list of Open Access Journals with an Australian publisher view here
Books
OAPEN is dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books. OAPEN operates two platforms, the OAPEN Library (www.oapen.org), a central repository for hosting and disseminating OA books, and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB, www.doabooks.org), a discovery service for OA books.