News Article: Unwrapping discovery: the importance of institutional repositories

Publisher open access (OA), also known as gold OA, for research papers is easy to understand: the final published version of a journal article is available to anyone with an internet connection, with the authors able to choose their preferred reuse permissions via a Creative Commons (or other) licence.

However, not all journal articles can be published open access, typically because there is a publishing fee that the author, institution or funder can’t or won’t pay.