Open Access Hub

Benefits of Open Access

Open access is a transformative model that enhances the visibility, accessibility, and impact of research by making it freely available to anyone around the world. Here are the key benefits of open access as championed by tResearch:

• For Researchers: Open access publications reach a broader audience, leading to increased citation and usage of your work. This heightened visibility can accelerate scientific discovery and enhance academic career prospects by showcasing your research to a global audience without paywall barriers.
• For Institutions: Universities and research institutions benefit from open access as their faculty’s work becomes more visible and citable, which can enhance the institution's reputation and academic influence. Open access also supports institutional missions of knowledge dissemination and public engagement.
• For the Public: By providing immediate and free access to research outcomes, open access ensures that teachers, practitioners, policymakers, and the curious public can apply the latest knowledge in their fields and make informed decisions, thereby democratizing information and empowering individuals and communities.

Licenses and Rights

tResearch utilizes Creative Commons licenses to support our open access model, ensuring that the rights of authors and the wider public are protected while enabling the free sharing of information. Here’s how these licenses work:

• CC BY (Attribution): This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as they credit the author for the original creation. It is the most accommodating of licenses offered, maximizing the dissemination and use of licensed materials.
• CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial): This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge the author and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
• CC BY-ND (Attribution-NoDerivs): This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as the work is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the author. Each of these licenses supports the open access mission by allowing free access and use of research outputs while protecting the rights of authors and ensuring proper attribution and acknowledgment in all uses of the content.