How to make your research more discoverable:
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Open access publishing means that readers around the world can access your findings without having to pay for the article. You will be able to reach a wider audience including practitioners, policy makers, the broader public, and researchers from developing countries. This may help lead to increased citations, as well as boosting engagement through social media and news mentions, all because your research is more easily accessible.
When your peer-reviewed, scholarly work is freely available on the internet, it can lead to many benefits:
UOW's Open Access Policy:
Additionally, policies from funders such as Australian Research Council (ARC) and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) require that publications arising from their grants must be deposited into an openly accessible location such as an institutional repository or other suitable site (e.g. subject repository, publisher website).
You can deposit your research into a range of Open Access repositories, including:
Institutional repository
Subject repositories
Repository directory
Finding Open Access journals
Finding Open Access books
There are three main Open Access models, some of which attract fees:
Green OA: Authors can self-archive accepted manuscripts at the time of submission of the publication, via an institutional or subject repository. This is the model supported by UOW's Open Access Policy.
Gold OA: Authors publish in an Open Access journal where free online access is available to all readers. Some OA journals require the author to pay a publication fee (Article Processing Charge – APC). Gold OA may be supported and funded at the Faculty level where strategically or otherwise appropriate (UOW's Open Access Policy).
Hybrid OA: Authors pay a fee for their article to be made Open Access even though it is in a subscription journal.