UTAS Open Access Procedure

All University research outputs must be deposited in the University’s Open Access Repository (OAR) via Elements. 

The University Open Access Procedure outlines the mandatory deposit, timing of deposit and the process to deposit research outputs in Elements for discovery in the OAR.

Following the OA Procedure ensures researchers comply with the: Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, Australian Research Council (ARC) Open Access Policy and  National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Open Access Policy.

How to comply

• Deposit Author Accepted Manuscript (final author version) of a published output in Elements for discovery and delayed access in OAR
• Deposit Non-traditional Research Output (NTRO) digital representation in Elements, metadata discoverable in OAR

• Deposit publisher Open Access version in Elements for discovery and access in OAR

For Research outputs advice and Elements guides, visit Manage your research outputs (sharepoint.com)

Benefits

• Visibility - everybody can easily discover your research online
• Access -  anybody can download and share in accordance with the assigned copyright licence
• Citation -  visibility and access equals reuse and impact

• Compliance -  ARC & NHMRC OA policies require research outputs to be as accessible as possible

Find out more 

OAustralasia website 

• What is Open Access? 
• What are the different types of Open Access?
• FAIR principles and Open Access
• Contact Research & Learning Librarians to discuss your publishing strategy 

Open Access Repository (OAR) statistics - known issue update

Very recently we discovered figshare had enabled bots which conflated all Open Access Repository statistics.  The bots’ statistics have now been removed as they skewed individual author item statistics plus repository statistics reported to external organisations. Open Access Repository items now reflect human initiated statistics only.
 

Please email oa.repository@utas.edu.au if you need further information.