{"id":1724,"date":"2026-07-08T08:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/?page_id=1724"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:44:14","slug":"openaccess","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/openaccess\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access at Brandon University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Open access makes research outputs publicly available and is required by the Tri-agency and other funders. Researchers at Brandon University are expected to make their work openly available and can meet these requirements through a range of options, including open access publisher agreements and repository deposit. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Your options<\/h2>\n<p><span>If your article is not published open access, repository deposit is the standard way to meet open access requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When your article is accepted, you should confirm whether it will be published open access or deposit your accepted manuscript in a repository.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Publish Open Access<\/h3>\n<p><span>You can choose to publish your article as open access through an available journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Many journals offer open access options <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Some \u201cRead and Publish\u201d agreements are available to reduce or cover article publishing charges or other costs <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Your final published article is available right away<\/span><span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Deposit in a Repository<\/h3>\n<p><span>You can also share a version of your article through a repository.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This step typically occurs once your article has been accepted for publication and is usually your accepted manuscript (after peer review)<\/li>\n<li>Manuscripts can be deposited in IRBU or another appropriate repository<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Need help?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span>Understand Open Access requirements:<\/span><\/strong><span> contact Research Compliance and Policy Officer, Dr. Faye Noohi <a href=\"&#109;a&#x69;l&#x74;&#111;&#x3a;&#110;&#x6f;&#111;h&#x69;f&#x40;&#98;&#x72;&#97;&#x6e;&#100;&#x6f;&#110;u&#x2e;c&#x61;\">n&#111;&#111;&#x68;&#x69;&#x66;&#64;&#98;&#114;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x64;on&#117;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x61;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Understand open publishing or IRBU options: <\/span><\/strong><span>contact Scholarly Communications Librarian Carmen Kazakoff-Lane <a href=\"m&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;t&#111;&#x3a;&#x6b;a&#122;&#x61;&#x6b;o&#102;&#x66;&#x40;b&#114;&#x61;&#x6e;d&#111;&#110;&#x75;&#x2e;c&#97;\">ka&#122;&#97;&#107;&#x6f;&#x66;&#x66;&#x40;br&#97;&#110;&#100;&#x6f;&#x6e;&#x75;&#x2e;ca<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/irbu.arcabc.ca\/\">IRBU<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.brandonu.ca\/OAToolkit\">Open Access Toolkit<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open access makes research outputs publicly available and is required by the Tri-agency and other funders. Researchers at Brandon University are expected to make their work openly available and can meet these requirements through a range of options, including open access publisher agreements and repository deposit. Your options If your article is not published open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":83,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1724","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}