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Open Access is founded on the principle that research, which is supported in large part by government subsidy, should be made available to the public in order to ensure it has the largest possible impact. This makes your research available to everyone, without price and publisher paywall barriers. It means your research is available to everyone, including:

• Other researchers and professionals
• Health care and education workers
• Policy makers
• The general public
• Global audiences

Open Access leads to research that is cited more quickly and more often. It accelerates the rate of scholarly exchange and promotes better reproducibility of research results.

Today many funding agencies including Canada’s Tri-Agencies require making publications and data openly accessible as a condition of receiving a grant.

UBC has its own position statement encouraging open access.