Open access and open licensing
Open access is important to help improve the visibility and impact of research, increase citation rates, and more. Open access works within copyright, making research available to those who may not be able to access subscription content, including researchers at other institutions and the community.
View our Quick Guide to Open Access Publishing Options (PDF).
Researchers can deposit their publications in our institutional repository Open Research Newcastle to assist with meeting funding mandates around open access. Contact the Scholarly Publishing team for assistance.
The Library has negotiated Read and Publish agreements and discounts with major publishers. Options for open licensing offered by each publisher within these agreements are detailed in our Read & Publish licensing guide (PDF). The University also has an Article Processing Charge (APC) Fund to support open access publishing in high quality journals.
To learn more about open access, check out our Guide to open research. To learn more about publishing using a Creative Commons licence, see our page on Open licensing.
The video below covers what you should know about open access. You can watch similar videos in our Copyright, licensing and open access for research playlist.
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