Open Access (OA) means that electronic scholarly research outputs are made freely available on the web to all, with no or limited license restrictions. In doing so you maximise the impact of your work as the potential readership is much wider than that for publications where the full-text is restricted to subscribers only. In addition to your research being free to read, OA also allows others to re-use and build on that research.
UCC authors have a key role to play in making research open access and have number of options to make their make their publications open access by:
Author-Archived Open Access
Authors can put copies of the final draft/accepted version of their publications into a repository such as CORA, the UCC institutional repository. This is also known as 'self-archiving' or Green open access, with no cost to authors.
Publisher-Hosted Open Access
Authors can make their research open access through a publisher e.g. a journal website such as PLOS ONE . This is also known as Gold open access.
Open Access agreements with Publishers
UCC has open access agreements with many publishers. These 'transformative agreements' typically allow corresponding authors from eligible institutions, including UCC, to publish their articles open access immediately on publication, at no additional cost to authors. The article publishing charges APCs are funded by the transformative agreements.
You can read more about how to access these open access 'Transformative Agreements' here .
