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CORA is an online, open access repository established by UCC Library to collect, store and disseminate the digital research output of the UCC scholarly community.
Open access to research literature is "digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder" Peter Suber, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication
Authors have a key role to play in making research open access. There are two ways authors can make their publications open access:
Author-Archived Open Access
Authors can put copies of their publications into a repository such as CORA, the UCC institutional repository
Publisher-Hosted Open Access
Authors can make their research open access through a publisher e.g. a journal website such as PLOS ONE