Learning Outcomes

This module should help you to understand:

  • The background to the open access movement
  • What open access is
  • The benefits of open access and why it's important
  • What an institutional repository is and how it works

Find out more on the next page: What is open access?

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Author(s): Claire Choong

Last updated: 14th December 2021

Where you have been

Learning Skills Hub
Introduction to open access and research repositories

In this module

books and a pen

Related links

Anderson, T. (2011) '6 reasons open access matters to the medical community‘, Right to Research Coalition Blog
Ansolabehere, K., Ball, C., Devare, M., Guidotti, T., Priedhorsky, B., Van der Stelt, W., Taylor, M., Veldsman, S. and Willinsky, J. (2016) 'The Moral Dimensions of Open', Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, 1. doi: 10.13021/G8M01K.
Barbour, V., Chinnock, P., Cohen, B. and Yamey, G. (2006) 'The impact of open access upon public health', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 84(5), pp. 339. doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.032409.
 The Directory of Open Access Journals
JISC introduction to open access

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