The Library has signed up to several transformative agreements to support open access publishing.
When publishing in journals covered by these agreements, you may be able to publish directly to open access with no transactional article processing charges (APCs). Submit your publications as usual, and if the Library has an agreement in place, the publisher will alert you to an open access option on acceptance of the eligible article. Exclusions and caps apply to some journals.
How does journal publishing work and what do journal editors want from authors? The session will feature insights from Dr Amitabh Prakash, Editor in Chief at Adis, Springer Healthcare and RMIT researchers Dr Leith Campbell, editor of the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, and Distinguished Professor Helen Lingard, part of the editorial team for Construction Economics and Building.
Wed 8 June 2022, 2:30-3:30 PM
Open Access (OA) research literature is free online access to the outputs of publicly funded research.
This includes journal articles, conference papers, theses, reports, and any other outputs. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full-text, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
Open access literature increases the potential readership beyond those with research library affiliations or journal subscriptions.
"Open Access Explained!" by Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
To find out more about the practice of open research, see the library guide Open Research.
There are several models of open access publishing.
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Acknowledgment to Western Sydney University Library
Image: "Benefits of open access" by Danny Kingsley and Sarah Brown is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Data from lens.org (1 February 2021) show that Open Access publications by RMIT researchers consistently average more citations than non-open access publications.