Open Access

SUNY Plattsburgh's Open Access Policy defines Open Access (OA) as "the free availability of scholarly literature on the public internet, permitting users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles for any lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet."

This guide contains information about reading and publishing Open Access scholarly work at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Resources include:

• the college’s Open Access Policy
• information on the SUNY Open Access Repository (SOAR), the college’s storehouse of scholarly work created by SUNY Plattsburgh faculty and students,
• information on submitting faculty and student work to the SUNY Open Access Repository
• helpful materials on OA and scholarly communication, including information on the different types of OA publishing and the different kinds of repositories that may be available to you.