Q. What is Open Access?

The open access model works on the premise that research outputs should be freely, immediately and permanently available online to anyone, rather than locked away behind a paywall.

Where copyright allows, UOW aims to provide open access versions to research outputs of UOW staff and students via Research Online.
Open access can also be achieved by placing copies of articles in a subject or discipline-based repository such as PubMed, or where the journal publisher provides free online access to the full content of the journal (e.g. PLOS).

See our copyright guide and open research guide for more information.