SAGE Open Engineering is a new Open Access peer-reviewed journal designed for the publication of high quality research in all areas of engineering. SAGE is a large international academic publisher of journals, books and electronic media in all subject areas. Access UQ Library's SAGE subscription journals.

The Denton Declaration: an Open Data Manifesto, is the latest announcement on the growing debate on open data.

The declaration includes:

UQ eSpace is the single authoritative source for the research outputs of the staff and students of the University of Queensland. UQ eSpace serves to raise the visibility and accessibility of these publications to the wider world and to provide data for reporting requirements such as Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) and Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) and for the internal UQ systems such as the Q-Index and UQreSearchers.

eLife, the new open access journal initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, have made their first few articles available. The site will be officially launched in December 2012. The full content will also be made available via PubMed Central (PMC) and its mirror sites, such as UKPMC.

Athabasca University Press (AUPress) can demonstrate a significantly larger readership for its books as evidenced by the number of downloads of the open electronic versions. Read about a recent study that compares an open access university press with traditional presses. The study is available from:

SAGE Open Engineering is a new open access journal covering wide ranging topics on engineering. The new journal's aim is to be inclusive and according to the journal's website "lend itself to papers of both a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary nature but all engineering research will be considered provided authors can demonstrate that their work contributes to the aca

The BASE search engine is designed to find academic open access resources. BASE is operated by the Bielefeld University Library. BASE provides an excellent 'Advanced Se

The consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP) has negotiated that nearly all particle-physics articles will be immediately free on journal websites from 2014. This impacts researchers, meaning individual groups will not need to arrange open publication of their work. Peter Suber an advocate of open access stated "It is the most systematic attempt to convert all the journals in a given field to open access"(Nature|News, Sept 2012) To read further go to

A recent report on Open Access predicts that over the next 10 years the proportion of Open Access articles is likely to increase by 15-50%. The scale of the shift will depend on national and international policy decisions.

Libraries have a key role to play in making Open Access articles discoverable by the use of metadata and managing institutional repositories.

UQ Library is a proud member of the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) . Originally formed over a decade ago, SPARC aimed to: