Open Access

Open Access means making the most of communication technologies like the web, and providing free online access to scholarly research.

Benefits of making your research open access include:

  • increased visibility, citations, and impact for your research profile.
  • more effective dissemination of your research outputs.
  • granting reuse permission allows others to build on your work.

There are two main ways of achieving open access:

  • Publish with an open access journal (we refer to this as gold open access).
  • Deposit the final, author-created version of your research outputs in SURE (green open access).

Further information

Visit the SURE website here.

The library now manages SURE. 

Get in touch with the team at sure@sunderland.ac.uk

Page reviewed: September 2023