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Funder open data policies
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Policies and frameworks overview
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Research skills training overview
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Apollo - institutional repository
Apollo - institutional repository overview
Cambridge Diamond Open Access Platform
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About this site
Open research is the process of making research transparent, collaborative and accessible. It includes a wide range of practices that help others to understand, check, reuse and build on your work. These include sharing data, code, methods, publications, peer review and more. Open research practices can be explored and applied across all disciplines – arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences – in similar and different ways.
At Cambridge, open research supports excellence, integrity and public trust in research. It allows researchers to share their work widely, collaborate more easily, and demonstrate the value and impact of their findings. Open research also helps to meet funder and publisher requirements.
The University offers training, tools and guidance to help you embed open practices in your research and to share the outputs of your research. Whether you are starting out or looking to develop your approach, we can help you make your research as open as possible – and as closed as necessary.
Upload your work
Upload your work via Symplectic Elements
Upload your research outputs via Symplectic Elements
Upload your accepted articles, data, code and other research outputs to Symplectic Elements. We'll then review these and deposit them in Apollo for you.
Find research outputs
Find Cambridge research outputs in Apollo
Find Cambridge research outputs in Apollo
Apollo is the University's open repository. The University's research outputs are stored and preserved in Apollo. It contains journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, monographs, theses, research data, reports and much more.
Open research explained
Learn more about open research
Learn more about open research
Open research involves making your research, data, methods and findings freely available to others. Learn more about how to do this and how it benefits you, the research community and wider society.
Article Processing Charges
Pay an Article Processing Charge
Pay an Article Processing Charge
You may need to pay a charge if your work is published in certain journals or platforms. Find out whether we can support you with this and what you need to do next.
Read and publish agreements
Discover our read and publish agreements
Discover our read and publish agreements
We have open access publishing agreements with more than 11,000 academic journals. These allow Cambridge researchers to publish their eligible articles in these journals at no cost.
Submit your thesis
Submit an electronic copy of your thesis
Submit an electronic copy of your thesis
Submitting your thesis via Symplectic Elements ensures that your research is stored securely, shared appropriately and preserved as part of the scholarly record.
Book your training
Book a training session
Book a training session
Build your research skills through our training sessions and online modules. Find out more and book a place.
Share your research data
Share your research data
Publish your research data
Make your research data as open as possible and as closed as necessary to promote transparency and trust in your work, and allow others to reuse and build on your research.
Contact the team
Contact the team
Contact the team
Whether you need help with open access to your publications, sharing your data, depositing an electronic thesis or finding out more about open research, the Open Research team are here to support you.
About this site
About our website
Privacy policy
Contact us
At a glance
Apollo - institutional repository
Symplectic Elements
Research data
Open research governance
Research skills training
Open Research team
Contact us
Meet the team
Address
The Open Research team are part of University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives and based in the University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR
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Home
About open research
About open research overview
What is open research?
Why is open research important?
What are the benefits of open research?
Publications
Publications overview
Accepted for publication: what to do next
Pay an Article Processing Charge (APC)
Data access statement
Read and Publish agreements
Self archiving policy guidance
REF open access support
Open access monographs
Preprints
Find your funder's open access policy
Research data
Research data overview
Why publish your data
Data reproducibility
What data do you publish
How to publish your data
If you cannot publish your data
How to find the right repository for your data
How to deposit your data into Apollo
Funder open data policies
How to reuse data
Get help to manage your data
Theses
Theses overview
Submitting your electronic thesis
Apollo access levels
Copyright and your thesis
Managing sensitive information
Managing research data
Redacting your thesis
Depositing your thesis as an alumni
Uploading Masters theses
Find a Cambridge thesis
Copyright, licensing and citation
Copyright, licensing and citation overview
Copyright and IP essentials
Creative Commons licences
Using other people's material
Licensing software and code
Citation and attribution
Cambridge open research
Cambridge open research overview
Governance
Policies and frameworks
Policies and frameworks overview
Research skills training
Research skills training overview
Events
Events overview
Apollo - institutional repository
Apollo - institutional repository overview
Cambridge Diamond Open Access Platform
Open research infrastructure and tools
About us
About us overview
Meet the team
About this site
Open research is the process of making research transparent, collaborative and accessible. It includes a wide range of practices that help others to understand, check, reuse and build on your work. These include sharing data, code, methods, publications, peer review and more. Open research practices can be explored and applied across all disciplines – arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences – in similar and different ways.
At Cambridge, open research supports excellence, integrity and public trust in research. It allows researchers to share their work widely, collaborate more easily, and demonstrate the value and impact of their findings. Open research also helps to meet funder and publisher requirements.
The University offers training, tools and guidance to help you embed open practices in your research and to share the outputs of your research. Whether you are starting out or looking to develop your approach, we can help you make your research as open as possible – and as closed as necessary.
Upload your work
Upload your work via Symplectic Elements
Upload your research outputs via Symplectic Elements
Upload your accepted articles, data, code and other research outputs to Symplectic Elements. We'll then review these and deposit them in Apollo for you.
Find research outputs
Find Cambridge research outputs in Apollo
Find Cambridge research outputs in Apollo
Apollo is the University's open repository. The University's research outputs are stored and preserved in Apollo. It contains journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, monographs, theses, research data, reports and much more.
Open research explained
Learn more about open research
Learn more about open research
Open research involves making your research, data, methods and findings freely available to others. Learn more about how to do this and how it benefits you, the research community and wider society.
Article Processing Charges
Pay an Article Processing Charge
Pay an Article Processing Charge
You may need to pay a charge if your work is published in certain journals or platforms. Find out whether we can support you with this and what you need to do next.
Read and publish agreements
Discover our read and publish agreements
Discover our read and publish agreements
We have open access publishing agreements with more than 11,000 academic journals. These allow Cambridge researchers to publish their eligible articles in these journals at no cost.
Submit your thesis
Submit an electronic copy of your thesis
Submit an electronic copy of your thesis
Submitting your thesis via Symplectic Elements ensures that your research is stored securely, shared appropriately and preserved as part of the scholarly record.
Book your training
Book a training session
Book a training session
Build your research skills through our training sessions and online modules. Find out more and book a place.
Share your research data
Share your research data
Publish your research data
Make your research data as open as possible and as closed as necessary to promote transparency and trust in your work, and allow others to reuse and build on your research.
Contact the team
Contact the team
Contact the team
Whether you need help with open access to your publications, sharing your data, depositing an electronic thesis or finding out more about open research, the Open Research team are here to support you.
About this site
About our website
Privacy policy
Contact us
At a glance
Apollo - institutional repository
Symplectic Elements
Research data
Open research governance
Research skills training
Open Research team
Contact us
Meet the team
Address
The Open Research team are part of University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives and based in the University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR
© 2026 University of Cambridge
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