What is Open Access?
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.
Publishing Open Access
Monash researchers can publish papers in key journals, as Open Access, without paying article processing charges by utilising library Read and Publish agreements.
Models of Open Access publishing
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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.
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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. |
Open Access directories
Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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.
Finding Open Access research
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The Open Access Button will search across the web for a freely accessible full-text version of an article The next time you can’t access the research you need, use the Open Access Button. You get instant, legal access to articles and request articles that aren’t available.
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Unpaywall The browser extension for Firefox and Chrome, adds a green tab beside research articles that you can read for free.
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