Partnering on Copyright

Why should you make your work openly accessible?

An Open Access environment benefits the research community as a whole while empowering you personally, giving you more control over how your work can be accessed, used and re-used. It brings a wealth of practical benefits, most notably a significant increase of up to 250 per cent in citation rates over articles only available in traditional fee-based journals. This, by default, helps advance researchers’ careers and bolster their grant support while contributing to the advancement of knowledge overall. Other wide-ranging benefits provided by the infrastructure of an institutional repository (IR) include automating the creation of your own research record, thereby making writing a paper, preparing teaching materials or compiling a CV far easier than before. The online, self-archived environment also provides the ideal home for supporting research material such as datasets, which cannot easily be published in a traditional journal.

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