Open Access Escape Room

Learn more about your open access options at ACU as you navigate an escape room as a PhD student, early career researcher or a mid-career researcher.

Accelerate research

When you choose to publish open access, or make a copy of your work available in an institutional repository, you are ensuring more people can access and benefit from your work.

Open access is one way you can reach more people, get more citations and change more lives.

With open access research you can:

• Increase your reach and discoverability beyond those that have access to subscription journals.
• Unlock your potential for research impact. Research that is available to a wider audience is often cited more frequently.
• Build on existing research to make new discoveries.
• Customize the licensing of your work using Creative Commons, to maintain control over the use and attribution of your work.

Support open research at ACU

• Read the Open Access for ACU Research Policy and deposit your accepted manuscripts and research datasets in Research Bank.
• Check out our open access publishing information to learn more about open access, and consider publishing your work in open access journals.
• Understand your scholarly publishing options.
• Contact the Library for assistance making your research open access.