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Open Access is the free online availability of research publications coupled with the rights to use and reuse those publications. When researchers in social work publish their work open access, there are several benefits, including:

• Find the widest possible audience. Open Access means more readers, potential collaborators, citations of your work, and ultimately more recognition for you and your institution.

• Improve social work practices by ensuring the results of research can be read, built on, and used by anyone

• Open Access expands the number of potential contributors to research from just those at institutions wealthy enough to afford journal subscriptions to anyone with an internet connection. 
• The more people that can access and build upon the latest research, the more valuable that research becomes and the more likely we are to benefit as a society.