Subject Guides: Open Access: Help & Support

Contact your Research Librarians to learn more about Open Access including

your obligations in meeting OA policies and mandates
opportunities to make your research more discoverable through shared publications and data

Research Librarians are available to address groups of researchers at staff meetings or to provide individual consultations.

Other Research Guides
Explore the range of links and resources in our subject guides on maximising the discoverability and measuring the impact of your research.

Contact your Publications Officer with queries related to reporting your publications.

Copyright for Researchers
Here you will find some good practice tips for copyright management and publishing research.
Contact the UTAS Copyright Officer
Fill in the Copyright Query Form and send to the UTAS Copyright Officer.

Within the context of Open Access is a whole new vocabulary:

Glossary of Open Access Abbreviations, Acronyms and Terms
Extensive range of definitions related to OA, from SHERPA, University of Nottingham

AOASG website - FAQs
An authoritative location for all aspects of the open access discussion in Australia. It contains information about open access in Australia, including places to find open access materials, links to open access resources, lists of research and writing about open access in Australia and other useful links.
Videos about OA
This page contains a moderated selection of videos about open access from around the world.

Take action on Open Access to make your research discoverable and accessible

Read the new University Open Access Policy
Upload the Final Author Version of published papers to WARP
Self-deposit your grey (unpublished) outputs in the University Open Access Repository
Investigate whether Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) can be assigned to your research data and grey literature to make it easier to track citations
Share your research data descriptions (metadata) via the Research Data Management Portal to improve your research impact
Add new publications to your researcher identity profiles – ORCID, Google Scholar Citations, Scopus and ResearcherID
Contact Research Librarians to ask how you can boost your OA profile and research impact!

873,231 downloads of 4.489 items
highest download - Saxby Pridmore's 2006 Download of Psychiatry > 26,000
most downloaded PhD thesis - Andrew Fluck's 2003 , 'Integration or transformation: a cross-national study of information and communication technology in school education' >6000 downloads
Top authors - Saxby Pridmore (Psychology), Mark Wickham (TSBE), Kim Lehman (TSBE)
Most downloaded article: Janssen, V 2012 , 'Indirect tracking of drop bears using GNSS technology' , Australian Geographer, vol. 43, no. 4 , pp. 445-452 >2800 >>

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