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What is Open Access?

Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research. OA journals provide 'gold' OA, suggesting that immediate open access to all of their articles on the publisher's website. 'Gold' open access for individual articles is funded by authors, institutions, funders, or sponsors who pay an OA article-processing charge (APC) after acceptance.

How will readers know articles are open access?

All OA articles will be marked with an icon bearing 'Open' on the full-text and PDF formats of the published work, and information on the type of creative commons license will be available on all article formats and listed in the article metadata.

If I publish in the AUO, does this make me compliant with my funding body requirements?

The AUO's services and policies ensure that authors can fully comply with the public access requirements of major funding bodies worldwide.