Flinders University Library provides infrastructure to support open access to research, including both publishing open access and making existing outputs open access at no cost through university hosted platforms. The University's Open Access Policy has as its main principle that research outputs (including non-traditional research outputs) are required to be made open access, unless there is a justifiable reason. Researchers can choose the open access route that is most suitable to their research, with consideration to grant funding obligations.
Open access has the goal of empowering global equity in access to research outputs and removing barriers to access. Flinders University supports ethical and open research practices and aligns with the FAIR Principles: supporting Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable research and research outputs. Alongside FAIR Principles researchers should be aware of the CARE Principles which ensure that data is used ethically.
ResearchNow can be used to make article manuscripts open access at no cost and to showcase a variety of research, including non-traditional research outputs
Use the ROADS repository at Flinders to make your research datasets open access and reusable by others.
Have your reports hosted by Flinders with a stable DOI and a registered ISBN to aid in discoverability.
View offers available for free and discounted open access publishing options in selected journals.
Attend a library workshop to learn more about publishing open access, avoiding predatory publishers, and sharing all kinds of outputs.
Flinders University encourages researchers to learn about, adopt and encourage open research practices, where relevant or possible.
Open access to research outputs offers several benefits:
Open Access infographic – Click to enlarge.
By Ginny Barbour, Stephanie Bradbury,
Paula Callan & Anne Walsh. CC-BY-NC.
Recipients of an Australian Research Council grant will need to comply with the ARC Open Access Policy that requires most publications to be made open access within 12 months from publication date. For journal articles, this is preferably through depositing your accepted manuscript to be made open access at no cost through ResearchNow, or in an openly accessible public digital archive. You may also be able to publish open access at no cost by choosing a journal eligible for waived fees under a library Read & Publish agreement.
NHMRC grant holders issued after 20 Sept 2022 are subject to the NHMRC Open Access Policy. It requires that all peer reviewed publications are published open access immediately, with a Creative Commons Attribution licence allowing reuse by others. There are several avenues through which this can be achieved:
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