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Cycling through Open Access Week

Stephanie Bradbury

Research Support Manager

QUT Library

@stephbradbury

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Benefits of Open Access

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In previous years the library has hosted a number of seminars, panel sessions, and guest speakers, and in 2017 we invited early career researchers to put together a program for OA Week. These sessions motivated, informed, and inspired us, but who were we missing out on? Who wasn’t coming along to these events, and why? This year it was going to be different. We were going to take our open access message to the streets, or to be precise, to the faculties, to the researchers themselves, to professional staff, and to undergraduates. We were going to bring an Open Access Pop-Up Roadshow to the staff and students of QUT, but there was a twist.

For academics who publish openly the benefits are concrete. A better readership for open articles is not surprising, but the benefit of increased academic usage are also becoming clearer through more citations. Critically, depositing in an OA repository such as QUT’s ePrints, is demonstrated to be the best way to boost citations. Furthermore, open articles are better connected into global systems for sharing information, which means that ultimately they can have wider societal impact.

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6 tips

to make your work

open and fair

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Where to from there?

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Data collection and follow up…

… Liaison Librarians

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of the team

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