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Lisa McIntosh
Associate Librarian, Resources

Email: lisamc@uow.edu.au
Phone: 02 4221 5608

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Michael Organ
Manager, Repository Services

Email: morgan@uow.edu.au
Phone: 02 4221 3108

19-23 October 2009

Open Access Week highlights the burgeoning support for open access to research outputs amongst the international higher education community and the general public, through the proliferation of digital repositories and the adoption of open access policies by major research funders.

Research Online is the University of Wollongong's open access digital archive of research output. RO currently contains over 5000 scholarly items, and has generated more than 1 million fulltext downloads since the site went live in 2006.

Institutional repositories such as Research Online enhance the visibility, retrievability, and impact of research output by the exposure of material to researchers through search engines such as Google. Studies have shown open access leads to improved citation rates along with an enhanced research reputation for faculty staff and the University.

Research Online accommodates a wide range of material, from journal articles, conference papers and book chapters, through to theses, audio and video files, and images such as photographs and artworks.

It has the ability to fully host and archive conferences, and publish peer-reviewed journals. A growing number of journal publishers are allowing authors to deposit their postprints in institutional repositories. The Library is also engaged in a major digitisation initiative to make available on open access University theses dating back to the early 1960s.

Open Access Journals published at University of Wollongong

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Peter Kell (Education)

"Research Online is the most amazing thing that has happened for scholarly publishing in my 20 years as an academic." January 2009
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Katina Michael (Informatics)

"I think the real contribution of RO has been in forming cross-institutional and transnational networks. We have had individual papers downloaded thousands of times and believe this has led to an increased citation rate relative to opportunity. We are able to collaborate with academics, engineers, lawyers, policymakers across the globe without ‘pushing’ material to people in a misguided way. People are finding our research and then getting in touch with us…" August, 2009
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Sara Dolnicar (Commerce)

"Research Online is revolutionary. Finally I have a good answer to give to people who email me, tell me that their uni has no funds for journal subscriptions and ask for my paper! Research Online has contributed greatly to the dissemination of my work." September, 2009.