Open access and publishing your research

Open access is about making research outputs freely available online with reduced restrictions on use and re-use.

Open access benefits researchers by helping you maximise the dissemination of your own research. It also means that the published outputs of research are available to anyone who wishes to read them. The links below provide further guidance on publishing your research open access:

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Open Research team
Book an online appointment or email us:
✉ lib-open-research@york.ac.uk

About open access

Open access books and chapters

Open access and the REF

Guidance, support and training

York Open Access Fund and publishing agreements

Supporting staff and postgraduate researchers to meet the costs of publishing open access

Funder open access policies

Guidance on meeting funder requirements to make research publications open access

Research Publications and Open Access Policy

Our Practical Guide provides information on the University's Research Publications and Open Access policy, which allows researchers to exercise greater sharing and reuse rights over their own research.

Get a DOI for your work

A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a way of uniquely and permanently identifying a resource, so that it can remain findable and citable in the long term.

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Publish your research

General advice for postgraduate research students and early career researchers on factors to consider when deciding where to publish.

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Contact us

Open Research team
Book an online appointment or email us:
✉ lib-open-research@york.ac.uk