The University of Queensland has its own Institutional Repository called UQ eSpace. Academics are encouraged to deposit their pre-print papers in this repository. For help with this either consult the FAQ page or contact them.

Authors will need to check the journals policy on depositing papers to determine whether there are any barriers to depositing, for instance some publishers require a payment, some allow it to be deposited after an embargo period, while others will not allow depositing at all. The depositing policies of individual publishers can be checked in RoMEO

Different publishers allow different rights in regards to archiving articles. The following colour codes were established to make it easier to quickly and easily identify these rights.

Green - can archive pre-print and post-print

Blue - can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)

Yellow - can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)

White - archiving not formally supported

Pre-print is the version of the paper before peer review.

Post print is the version of the paper after peer review.

For more information consult the SHERPA definitions and terms page

If a publisher does not allow the depositing of papers then it is possible for an author to modify the license agreement or to negotiate with the publisher in order to have the license changed to allow it.

There are many Open Access Journals available to publish in. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) can be searched to find specific journals of interest in a subject area, for example the medical journal PLoS Medicine.

When submitting papers to an Open Access journal the submission process is virtually identical to that of submitting to a traditional subscription, or Toll Access journal, with the exception that there may be a publishing fee to be paid by the author.

It is becoming more and more common for publishers to allow an article being published in their journals to be made Open Access. If an author wishes their paper to be made Open Access they submit the article as normal and after it is accepted they pay a publishing fee, this fee can be checked at RoMEO.

This means the paper appears in the journal as normal with the exception that anyone in the world can access it without requiring a subscription to the journal itself. An example of this is the Springer Open Choice model.

Open Access requires either the consent of the copyright holder or that the paper resides in the public domain, usually it is the former.

Although Open Access uses copyright-holder consent it does not require that copyright holders waive all the rights that run to them under copyright law and that they assign their work to the public domain.

Copyright holders normally consent to the unrestricted reading, downloading, copying, sharing, storing, printing, searching, linking, and crawling of the full-text of the work. Authors can choose to retain the right to block the distribution of mangled or misattributed copies. Or to block the commercial re-use of the work. Essentially, these conditions block plagiarism, misrepresentation, and sometimes commercial re-use, and authorize all the uses required by legitimate scholarship, including those required by the technologies that facilitate online scholarly research.

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) License is a an example of an Open Access license.

The Creative Commons provides a range of tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use the Creative Commons to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." The Creative Commons Legal Code (the full attribution license) is a standardised license for use in Open Access.

The Science Commons Scholar's Copyright Addendum Generator can help you to modify and supplement your publication agreement.