Why OA?
The OA model of publishing is a better fit for the collaborative and technology-driven digital age. Benefits include:
- providing greater visibility and citations to researchers
- supporting the goal of equitable access to information across the world, and
- encouraging innovation by enabling accelerated and more collaborative scholarship.
In addition, hundreds of universities and colleges, including CU Boulder, maintain their own institutional repositories (IRs) where faculty, staff, and students can self-archive academic work. Learn more about open access repositories and self-archiving.
Questions?
Visit the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship, or connect with our Scholarly Communication Librarian about open access, copyright agreements, and compliance with public access policies.