Unlocking the repository: A strategy for increasing the uptake of green open access
Mamtora, Jayshree, Bradshaw, Wayne, and Lemberget, Tove (2025) Unlocking the repository: A strategy for increasing the uptake of green open access. IFLA Journal. (In Press)
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Abstract
This article uses a recent retroactive open access project undertaken by an Australian university library to reframe attitudes and approaches to author self-archiving. In addition to the view that open access is something to be sought for new research outputs – at the time of publication or immediately after an embargo period – the article proposes an ‘archival’ approach to open access, which treats institutional repositories as historical archives of knowledge to be made freely available to the public through periodic author self-archiving campaigns. Informed by data from the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative’s Open Access Dashboard, this case study presents an alternative way of approaching the task of unlocking the repository archive through open access drives for older outputs. The article concludes that regular calls for author accepted manuscripts address some of the challenges facing the uptake of green open access by researchers. It demonstrates that it is possible to increase rates of author self-archiving through green open access drives.
| Item ID: | 86588 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1745-2651 |
| Keywords: | open access, green open access, author accepted manuscripts, James Cook University, ResearchOnline@JCU, institutional repository |
| Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page. |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2025 23:20 |
| FoR Codes: | 46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 4610 Library and information studies > 461007 Open access @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 22 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES > 2203 Information services > 220303 Library and archival services @ 100% |
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