International Open Access Week

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Welcome to Open Access Week, October 19-25th 2026! 

This annual event is a global celebration dedicated to promoting Open Access (OA) in research and scholarship. OA is a publishing movement aimed at making research freely available online. OA Week is an opportunity to take action and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems.

Find out more about Open Access Publishing at CQU.
 

Events

Expand your Open Access knowledge by attending:

 

Further Information

If you are seeking to publish Open Access through a journal, you may be eligible to avoid paying the Article Processing Charges (APC). For more information check out the Library's Read and Publish agreements page.

Published open data benefits our communities by creating opportunities and collaboration between researchers to build upon the results of previous research, reducing the cost of duplication. More information is available on Managing research data at CQU.

Many major publishers allow authors to legally share their Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) through their university's repository, which is the aCQUIRe platform for CQU researchers. An AAM is the last author-edited version of the manuscript after peer review, and the copy which has been accepted for publication by the journal before they apply editing, page numbering, typesetting, and branding.

To share an AAM:

  • Retain a copy of the Author Accepted Manuscript, or request it from the article's corresponding author.
  • When you claim the publication in Research Elements, upload a copy of the AAM (StaffNet link, staff or affiliate login required). Library staff will then check that journal's policy, and if permitted by that publisher, a copy of the AAM will be made Open Access via aCQUIRe.

For more information, see CQU’s Open Access for Research Outputs Policy 

Australian funding institutions such the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC) mandate that funded research be made open, which prioritises the best interests of both the public and the academic community.