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Watch this short video to gain a broader understanding of open access publishing.Fully open access journalsPublishing in an open access journal often means an article is assigned a creative commons licence permitting it to be distributed openly across a number of networks. You may be required to pay the publisher an upfront fee, or author processing charge (APC), to make the work openly available on the web. Publishing in this way can also be referred to as Gold Open Access.Subscription-based journalsPublishing in a traditional subscription-based journal means your published work is immediately available to journal subscribers.Articles published in these journals can still be made open access by making a pre or post print version of your article available in an open access repository such as the University's Open Research Repository. 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