Open Access Week Events

Join us from 20-30 October 2025 for a series of online events exploring Open Access in research and learning - featuring the UTAS Research Repository, Read and Publish agreements, and open educational resources.

UTAS Open Access Week 2025 program

UTAS Open Access Procedure

All University research outputs must be deposited in the  UTAS Research Repository (previously known as the 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 University's research repository.

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 the UTAS Research Repository

• Deposit publisher Open Access version in Elements for discovery and access in the UTAS Research Repository

• Deposit Non-traditional Research Output (NTRO) digital representation in Elements, for discovery and access in the UTAS Research Repository

• Deposit unpublished reports and request a DOI in Elements for persistent discovery and access in the UTAS Research Repository

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
• Open Access Toolkit for Australian and New Zealand researchers

Help

Contact Research & Learning Librarians to discuss your publishing strategy and how to get your work seen and cited.

UTAS Research Repository statistics - known issue update

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

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