Open Access: Advocate

How can you support open access?

• Use open access resources in your research! Turn to open access before subscription journals whenever possible.
• Publish your work in an open access journal
• Submit copies of your work to an open repository
• Learn and exercise your author's rights and copyrights
• Consider an author's addendum to secure your rights [PDF]
• Consider Creative Commons licensing
• Help your professional organizations, peers, and students understand open access and what it means to them
• Consider peer-reviewing for an open access journal

Adapted from the University of Lethbridge