News: Review articles restriction for MDPI & BioMed Central journals.
From the 1st January 2026 the library will be unable to pay the open access fees for any review article published in MDPI or BioMed Central journals.
This restriction will initially be in place for the first three months of 2026.
Please be aware that Queen’s has signed up to a number of read and publish deals that will cover the open access fees for review articles. You can find more information on the eligibility criteria of these deals at:
https://libguides.qub.ac.uk/openaccess/ReadandPublish
Please email openaccess@qub.ac.uk if you require more information.
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.
