JCU Library is pleased to announce the 2025 winners of its “Bring Out Your Dead” Green Open Access competition. This competition was first held in 2024 and seeks to increase the number of Open Access documents in JCU’s online institutional repository, ResearchOnline@JCU, making more of the university’s research output freely available to the public.
This year we once again invited researchers to send through
the peer-reviewed author accepted manuscript versions of published journal
articles that were still locked behind a paywall. We added these manuscripts to
existing publication records to bring the articles to life through Open Access.
Through the competition, we were able to make another 110 articles free to read
for researchers and members of the public. Manuscripts continue to come into
the repository even now and we invite researchers to reach out to us about
converting their work to Green Open Access at any time. With more than 10,000 restricted
articles in ResearchOnline@JCU from the previous decade alone, there’s still
plenty of work to be done!
What is Green Open Access?
Open Access is a foundational element of a broader movement
in the international research community called Open Knowledge or Open Science.
The central premise of Open Knowledge is that the information being produced by
government-funded institutions such as universities should be freely available
to the public. Open Access seeks to make the outputs of research, including
journal articles, books, book chapters and conference papers publicly available
to everyone around the world at no cost to readers.
There are many pathways to making publications like journal
articles Open Access, but some of these pathways can cost authors and
institutions significant sums of money. Historically, publishers have charged a
subscription fee to libraries and individuals for access to the journal
articles they publish. Gold Open Access involves researchers paying publishers
to cover the revenue from subscription fees for an article, which can amount to
as much as $17,000 for a single journal article Open Access in
some cases.
Green Open Access is different because there is no cost to
readers or authors. Rather than paying for the final, published version of an
article or book chapter to be made freely available, Green Open Access involves
depositing a manuscript of a publication, after it has undergone peer review
but before it has been typeset, in a repository like ResearchOnline@JCU. Most
publishers allow these manuscripts to be made publicly available for free,
usually after an embargo period of 12-24 months has elapsed to allow for
subscription sales.
2025 Winners
The winners of the 2025 competition are:
College of Arts, Society and Education: Dr Rosita Henry
College of Business, Law and Governance: Dr Leigh-Ann
Onnis
College of Healthcare Sciences: Professor
Alison Pighills
College of Medicine and Dentistry: Professor Peter
Thomson
College of Science and Engineering: Professor Mohan
Jacob
JCU Singapore: Dr Nurhafihz Noor
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| Dr Rosita Henry, CASE |
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| Prof Peter Thomson, CMD |
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| Dr Leigh-Ann Onnis, CBLG |
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| Prof Alison Pighills, CHS |
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| Prof Mohan Jacob, CSE |
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| From L-R: Jayshree Mamtora, Manager Scholarly Communications and Dr Mahmoud Sadat Noori, CSE, who received a Special Mention |
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| Dr Kim Lim Tan presenting the award to Dr Nurhafihz Noor, JCUS Online L-R: Scholarly Communications Team: Jayshree Mamtora, Stephen Anderson, Wayne Bradshaw, Tove Lemberget |
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