Open Access Week
Welcome to Open Access Week!
This annual event is a global celebration dedicated to promoting open access in research and scholarship. Open Access Week is an opportunity to take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems.
By attending OA week events and participating in OA week, you will:
- Improve your Open Access knowledge around publishing, licensing and open resources
- Discover Library OA tools and resources
Expand you open access knowledge by:
- Attending the “Read and publish agreements: How to publish with power!” to learn about making the most of CQU’s Read and Publish agreements, by select the highest quality Open Access Journal’s to avoid paying article processing fees. As well as learn how to protect your intellectual property and rights as an author during the submission process.
- Attending Open Access Australasia sessions
- Attending other Open Access training and events from around the world
Want to publish in a hybrid Open Access journal that CQUniversity has a subscription for? You may be eligible to have your Article Processing Charges (APC’s) waived. For more information check out the library's Read and Publish agreement page.
During the publishing process you can take the following steps to protect your intellectual property and rights as an author:
Before Submission
- Check the publisher's self-archiving policy to ensure you can deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in aCQUIRe.
- Find open access policy information for journals using Sherpa Romeo.
At Submission
- Include a rights retention statement on your submitted manuscript. This is often included in the funder and acknowledgments section.
On Acceptance
- Keep a copy of the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM).
- Check the article proofs to see if the rights retention statement has been included.
- Read the publishing agreement before you sign it and keep a copy for your records.
On Publication
- If a rights retention statement is included in the published version, you can submit the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to Research Elements allowing it to appear in aCQUIRe.
Key links: - CQU’s Open Access for Research Outputs Policy
Published open data benefits our communities by creating opportunities and collaboration between researchers to build upon the results of previous research, reducing the cost of duplication.
Find out more about how to manage and publish your open data here at the Managing research data library website.
Open access mandates prioritise the best interests of both the public and the academic community.
Australian research institutions like the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC) mandate that research be made open access, benefiting the communities that research seeks to serve.
- ARC Open Access Policy
- NHMRC Open Access Policy
- Other research funders' open access policies can be found using Sherpa Juliet
Your Authors Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is your intellectual property, don’t waste the opportunity to share your research with the public and the academic community!
An Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is the final author-created version of the manuscript, which includes any changes made after peer-review and has been accepted for publication by the journal, but before the publisher's final copy, editing, page numbering, typesetting, and formatting.
By checking if you own the rights to your AAM, you may have the power to make it freely available, accessible and reusable. Submit your AAM to Research Elements to ensure it appears in aCQUIRe, making your research more openly discoverable.
Open access (OA) is a publishing movement aimed at making research freely available online.
When research is fully open access, it is free for the public to access, read, download, copy, share, or use for any other lawful purpose.
There are different subtypes of open access, including Diamond OA, Gold OA and Green OA
See our Open Access Publishing page for more details
