Open access and publishing your research

Open access is about making research publications (articles, books and chapters) 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.

These pages provide specific guidance on open access, including services and support provided by the Library, as well as publishing your research more generally.

Contact us

Open Research team
Email lib-open-research@york.ac.uk or book an online appointment

Open Access Publishing: a Practical Guide

Our Practical Guide covers the practices and principles underlying open access, including routes towards publication for journal articles, books and chapters, and policies set out by research funders and the University.

York Open Access Fund

The Library can support staff and postgraduate researchers in publishing open access through the payment of article and book processing charges (APCs and BPCs).

Open access publishing agreements

The Library holds agreements with journal publishers which allow York-affiliated authors to publish open access at no additional charge.

Publish your research

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

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.

White Rose University Press

Jointly run by the White Rose Universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield, White Rose University Press (WRUP) is the University of York’s in-house, fully open access university press.

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Contact us

Open Research team
Email lib-open-research@york.ac.uk or book an online appointment