Q. What is Open Access?

The open access model works on the premise that research articles should be freely, immediately and permanently available online to anyone, rather than locked away in subscription journals.

Where copyright allows, UOW aims to provide open access to the research outputs of UOW staff and students via it's open access repository, Research Online. This includes articles accepted for publication in scholarly journals.

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 for more information.

See our Open research guide for more information.