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Open access platforms

Open access publishing platforms at Flinders

Flinders University provides several repositories and tools to support researchers in making their research output open access at no cost. There are alternatives to publishing open access through the publisher which we provide the infrastructure for. This includes solutions for sharing both published and unpublished research outputs, non-traditional research outputs, research data, and theses.

 

Publications & research outputs

Theses

Research data

Reports & grey literature

Publications and research outputs

Research Now is the Flinders University research management system used to showcase both published and non-traditional research outputs which then display on the author’s Research Now profile. It also provides a platform for making papers open access for free, without having to pay for open access publishing through the publisher. For already published articles through major publishers, the final peer reviewed accepted manuscript (depicted in the diagram below) can often be made open access at no cost through Research Now.

Research staff can upload a copy of the accepted manuscript to Research Now and then library staff will confirm with the publisher if it can be made open access and will do so on your behalf in accordance with any publisher conditions.

Diagram showing different journal article manuscript versions. The first document icon is labelled Submitted Version and is described as the manuscript submitted to the journal. This version then undergoes peer review and is accepted by the journal for publication, so it becomes the Author Accepted Manuscript or AAM. The AAM then becomes published in the article’s final form, which has a dollar symbol on it and is labelled as the Version of Record, it is the final formatted and typeset article available to subscribers on the journal website. The AAM document has an arrow pointing to the international symbol for open access, which is an unlocked padlock, and says to upload this AAM version to ResearchNow to be made open access at no cost.

Research data

ROADS is a dedicated space for making Flinders research data open using the Figshare online platform. Open data is the process of making raw data files gathered during the course of research openly accessible online. Grant funding bodies and publishers are increasingly requesting researchers to make data associated with research outputs publicly available.

Uploading your material to ROADS can increase exposure to research data by making it findable and citable with a permanent link (DOI). Researchers can directly deposit datasets straight into ROADS.

Learn more about ROADS

Theses

Theses arising from PhDs, Masters, and Graduate Diploma qualifications at Flinders University will be made open access through the Library. Visit the Thesis Submission page for more information about the requirements for making theses available digitally.

View Flinders theses

Reports and grey literature

The Library can register ISBNs and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for unpublished material such as reports. A digital copy is then made available through Flinders Academic Commons. Submit a request through the Library Research Query form in Service One.

Flinders Academic Commons

Need help?

Contact the Library Research Engagement team for support
with publishing open access.

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Last Updated: 28 Mar 2023
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