News: Queen's pre-pay agreement with PLOS ended on 1st January 2025.
This means articles published in PLOS ONE, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS Digital Health and PLOS Complex Systems will no longer automatically be covered for open access by Queen's.
If your article has been funded by one of the following, Queen's can still arrange the payment for you.
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.
