When creating open content such as open textbooks or open courseware, you may use:
- content with open licensing, such as Creative Commons or Public Domain
- content in which copyright has expired
- external links to non-infringing content
- content that you have written permission to use.
You may wish to use . Where UniSQ owns the copyright in the work, content
will need to be licensed by the UniSQ Legal
Office. You will then be able to share your open access resource on many different open access sharing
platforms.
When licensing your work under Creative Commons, you need to make sure the licence you choose is compatible with the
licences of all the resources you have used. For example, if aspects of your work contain the “Share
Alike” element, the final work must be distributed under a “Share Alike” licence.
Open Access publishing
Open Access ensures that your work can be more easily found, downloaded and shared, increasing citation rates.
Publishing in Open Access journals ensures optimal return on public investment.
Open Access approaches
Green Open Access
Green Open Access publishing allows authors to archive a version of their work in an institutional repository () or other
repositories (such as ResearchGate or PubMed Central).
Gold Open Access
Researchers may choose to publish in an Open Access journal, where the journal provides free online access to the
content of the journal. Gold Open Access journals have a processing charge. It may be possible to include this
processing charge in grant applications, should you decide to publish open access at the time of application.
Open Access and monographs
The provides a
useful overview of Open Access options for publishing monographs.
Open Access publishers often allow the distribution of versions of your publication into an institutional repository
like RISE Research Repository. It is important to note which version you are able to share:
- Pre-print (submitted version) – this is the version the author sends to the publisher for
review.
- Post-print (accepted version) - this version is still in manuscript form but includes
corrections associated with the peer review process. This is the version that is most commonly included in
institutional repositories.
- Published version - this includes the publishers format (including logos, hyperlinked
references, pagination and other formatting consistent with journal publications). Few publishers allow this
version to be shared in repositories, even after an embargo period.
Many publishers impose an embargo period whereby work may be stored in a repository but not made available through
Open Access. Some funding bodies, such as the mandate
that research should be made available via open access as soon as possible after the date of publication.