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Happy International Open Access Week! To kick us off, Open Access Australasia is hosting three free lunchtime webinars celebrating this year鈥檚 theme of Community over Commercialisation.

Schedule:

• Tuesday 22 October, 11:30 am -1:00 pm听鈥� Open and Accessible: When open isn鈥檛 enough
• Wednesday 23 October, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm听鈥� Communities in Action: Cutting through the rough with diamond journals and open knowledge
• Thursday 24 October, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm听鈥� Communities con-tech-ualised? How can technologies support communities and their decisions around opening their knowledges?

You can find more details and register .

Why we celebrate Open Access

As a researcher, you鈥檙e probably aware of what听Open Access (OA) publishing听is 鈥� publishing your research outputs in a way which can be read by anyone, anywhere in the world.

This can be via either the Gold route of publishing in a title which is available openly to read, or via the Green route of placing your final manuscript in our institutional repository,听Adelaide Research and Scholarship, with appropriate open licences.

The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide鈥檚听Open Access Policy听sets out the responsibilities of 最新糖心Vlog researchers when it comes to publishing Open Access, and in the Library we support and advocate for OA.

There are many reasons why you should choose to publish your work Open Access, and to celebrate听 here are five of them.

1. Open Access publications have the potential to receive higher numbers of citations than those published behind paywalls; if your work is accessible to anyone to read, then you are widening your opportunities to be cited. The Library Research and Engagement Team have used听听to compare citation rates for 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide journal articles from 2019 to 2023, and have found that those which are available as Open Access have received an average of听21.59 citations per paper, whilst those which are only available behind a paywall have received 14.06 citations per paper on average (滨苍颁颈迟别蝉,听15 October 2024).
2. The theme of this year鈥檚 Open Access Week is 鈥淐ommunity over Commercialisation鈥�, and OA can support that aim of prioritising the social good through breaking down barriers to accessing research outputs; your work can be read by those who are not in a position to get past expensive paywalls, and also the general public (who ultimately fund much research through paying their tax).
3. When you increase the visibility of your research through publishing OA, you increase the potential of it reaching practitioners in industry - again, people who may not have access to journal subscriptions 鈥� thereby opening up more opportunities for your research to be used in practice.
4. When your research is more visible and accessible through OA publishing, it can also help you to find potential collaborators for future work; the more people that can read your work, the more opportunity there is for someone to find out about you and what you are doing. 听
5. Last but not least鈥any funders (including the ARC and the NHMRC) mandate how researchers receiving grants from them must publish their research outputs from that grant Open Access. It is very important to be aware of what requirements your funder has around how, where and when you make your work Open, as well as to understand what is mandated under the 最新糖心Vlog鈥檚听Open Access Policy, which applies to all 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide authors.

Do you have questions about publishing Open Access? Take a look at the听Library鈥檚 OA webpage, and听get in touch with your Liaison Librarian听if you have any questions.