Open access and ORA
The full text of as many items as possible are made open access in ORA. This means that the full content is freely available to anyone with Internet access.
The reasons for making items open access is so that there are no barriers to access your work.
- It benefits authors by making your work easily accessible and therefore more likely to be read and cited.
- It benefits society by making research available to all, and is not dependent on the ability to pay or have a subscription
- It makes notoriously elusive items such as some conference papers and posters, unpublished works and out of print items easy to obtain.
- It benefits the University by publicising its research
Many major funding bodies now require that research outputs produced as a result of their funding is made available open access. These include all UK Research Councils, NIH, EU, Wellcome Trust.
Open access work should be properly attributed according to standard academic practice.
There are two methods of making your work open access:
- Depositing a copy in ORA (rights permitting - we can help you with copyright queries)
- Publishing in an open access journal or in a journal that offers an 'open' option
You can find out more about open access by following the links below