To advance academic discovery and foster global collaboration, the University of Wollongong (UOW) Library is proud to announce the launch of a modern and future-focused platform to power our open access repository, Research Online. This milestone reflects UOW’s ongoing commitment to driving innovation and supporting the global research community.
Research Online supports the university's commitment to advancing research and contributing to global academic conversations without paywalls or subscription barriers. It will centralise, preserve, and share the university’s extensive body of research, making it easily and freely accessible to scholars, researchers, and institutions around the world.
Research Online provides access to an array of journal articles, theses, reports, datasets, creative works and other scholarly publications. The open access repository enhances the visibility of UOW academics and students. It facilitates cross-disciplinary collaboration, enables compliance with grant funders open access mandates, and provides a conduit for researchers to contribute to solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
UOW Researchers will interact with Research Online via Elements, our existing system for managing research outputs and UOW Scholars profiles. This Elements integration allows for seamless depositing of open access versions of publications to Research Online, without duplicating data entry.
UOW academics and students can access self-help resources for Research Online through the Elements guide. This guide provides detailed information on how to add open access works to Research Online.
The implementation has been a successful collaborative project for the Library, Research Services Office, and Information Management and Technology Services and Graduate Research School units. The project has been delivered on time and under budget and we are thrilled to announce a fit for purpose and integrated open access repository, Research Online - a valuable resource designed to make knowledge freely accessible to all.
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Benefits of open access publishing: practioners can apply your findings, higher citation rates, your research can influence public policy, the public can access your findings, compliant with grant rules, taxpayers get value for money, researchers in developing countries can see your work, more exposure for your work.