Open Access Week

This week is Open Access Week (Oct 19-24). Open Access is a movement within the global research community to make the published results of scholarly research freely available on the Web. Open Access Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of the services, technology and expertise available to you.
Your research results can be made freely available in a variety of ways:

1. Archive your research in a local Institutional Repository ('Green' Open Access)
   
   Offering copyright clearance, professional cataloguing and detailed usage statistics, Research_online@UCD, currently being piloted by the UCD Library, will allow you to do just this from 2010.


2. Pay your publisher a fee to make publications open (Gold Open Access)
   
   Click here for a list of publishers
   
   
3. Submit your research or have your research sent to a subject repository. Examples include:
   
   PubMed Central (required by many Life Sciences publications)
   
   ArXiv.org -- Physics repository, author submits
   
   Economists Online -- aggregated from local repositories including Research_online@UCD

Please note: if you are publishing research as a result of SFI, HEA and/or IRCSET funding since May-June 2008, (SFI since Feb 2009), you may be required by your funder to store a copy in your local institutional repository. Research_online@UCD can accept the post-peer-review final draft of your paper (post-print) now. Submission instructions are available here

Please do not send publishers' final edited version unless your publisher appears in this list

With your help, Research_online@UCD will ensure that each item archived is copyright cleared.
For more information on Open Access or archiving your research, please contact the Library or research.online@ucd.ie.
Diarmuid