Accessing our research

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Content

Why do we make our research freely available?

Freely accessible research is good for science.

It is also essential for the Crick to achieve our aims. By removing barriers to accessing and analysing research and data, our research reaches the widest possible audience.

Transparency and accessibility also benefits our researchers by leading to wider discussions and higher citation levels. And can help kick-start new collaborations with other research groups working on similar areas.

Open access also means easier access for people outside of academia such as the wider public, health workers and research institutions around the world.

Get in touch

We have a dedicated support team which provides publishing advice and training for all researchers.

If you have an enquiry about accessing our research contact the Open Access team:

Policy etc

Our policy

We are committed to immediate, unrestricted access to the published outputs of research through open access.

The choice of which journal to publish research results in is a decision for the individual researcher. When assessing research quality the Crick considers that it is the quality of the research, and not where an author has published, that is of paramount importance.

Supporting open science

A key pillar of our founders'  funding is that we make all of our research freely available. 

We've supported this commitment through our policies and practices:

  • We accept preprints as citations in employment applications and group leader reviews.
  • We signed the Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age to help remove barriers to content mining. 
  • We signed the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to help improve how the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated. 
  • We apply a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide CC-BY license on all author accepted manuscripts describing work carried out at the Francis Crick Institute. This allows authors to share the manuscript with colleagues, use it in teaching and deposit it in repositories.