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Social Sciences & Social Work: Open Access

Open Research Training - October 2024

Wednesday 9th October 2024

More training events for Autumn 2024 here

WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS?

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Open access (OA) is about achieving free access to research. OA research is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

The two main routes to Open Access are known as Green and Gold.

Green open access means publishing in a journal and depositing the author accepted manuscript in a subject or institutional repository. Queen's Research Publications and Copyright Policy will allow Queen's authors to make their accepted manuscripts open access upon publication.  

Gold open access means that the published version of the research article is open access directly from the journal - the reader does not need to pay to read the article.

 

WHY OPEN ACCESS MATTERS

THE ROUTES TO OPEN ACCESS

IMPACT OF OPEN ACCESS

CONTACT US

For further information on open access or the Research Portal please email openaccess@qub.ac.uk.