Making your scholarly work open has many benefits.
- Increasing readership and citation of your research
- Controlling costs for libraries and readers
- Making your research available to the communities you study
- Enabling policymakers and other decision makers to act on your findings
- Making it easier for teachers to assign your work to their students
- Complying with funders' open and public access policies
- Keeping publicly funded research in public hands
- Ensuring that readers can readily print, copy, and otherwise reuse your work
- Taking advantage of the full power of the internet to share your results
Learn more about open access in our Open Access Research Guide. Learn more about Penn State's open access policy on the open access policy website. With questions, contact the Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright.