What are the benefits of open access?

What are the benefits of open access?

Some of the benefits of open access:

• You can increase the visibility of your research and gain more citations.
• You can make your research accessible to researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, businesses, educators and the general public around the world.
• You can increase the societal impact of your research.
• You can comply with funding organizations’ open access mandates.
• You can increase intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Open access material can be used freely for educational purposes.