Open access (OA) is a movement to ensure permanent and free access to and use of scholarly information and outputs, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, data, and theses. This guide provides resources to support participation in open access across the many stages of scholarly research:
Routes to publishing openly. The Turing Way project illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13882307
Provides key information on open access means, how institutional open access requirements work, and why authors might consider making their work openly accessible online.
Provides an overview of changes in open access publishing and the initiatives that are driving them.
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.
Provides concise explanations of key open access concepts.
Provides an explanation of the different Creative Commons (CC) licenses, their icons, and how to apply them.
International Open Access Week
Provides resources and highlights events promoting open practices in conjunction with Open Access Week, which is held annually in late October.
