JCU Library recently announced the 2025 winners of its “Bring Out Your Dead” Green Open Access competition. First held in 2024 across JCU’s Singapore and Australian campuses, the competition seeks to increase the number of Open Access documents in JCU’s online institutional repository, ResearchOnline@JCU, making more of the university’s research output freely available to the public.  

Named Retroactive Green Open Access Project 2025, the initiative acknowledged academics who converted the largest number of restricted journal articles to green open access from July to September 2025. Green open access refers to the practice of depositing a peer-reviewed, author-accepted manuscript of a published article into an institutional repository, allowing public access even when the final publisher version remains behind a subscription paywall.

This year, the JCU Library once again invited researchers to submit their manuscripts. Academics from each JCU college in Australia, as well as JCU in Singapore, participated. Those whose efforts resulted in the highest number of articles converted to green open access were recognised for their contribution to open scholarship with trophies.

Representing the Singapore campus of James Cook University (JCU in Singapore), Dr Nurhafihz Noor, Lecturer in Marketing, made four submissions over the course of the competition. “Making research freely accessible is important as it makes scientific discoveries and new knowledge more available to everyone. Ultimately, this makes research more useful and helps society to progress faster,” said Dr Hafihz.

“Pursuing open access should be the goal of every researcher to ensure that their work benefits a wider audience and that they can also receive feedback from the community. Hence, researchers should always explore Green or Gold Open Access options when publishing their work,” he added.

“It’s always encouraging to see our Singapore-based academics actively contributing to JCU’s open scholarship agenda and reinforcing the value of our transnational campus within the University’s global research ecosystem. Dr Hafihz’s contribution is a strong example of that commitment”, says Associate Professor Denise Dillon , acting Dean Research and Associate Dean Research Education.

Through the competition, JCU was able to make 110 additional research articles free to read for researchers and members of the public – further strengthening the University’s commitment to accessible, globally relevant research.

Read more about the Retroactive Green Open Access competition here.

Discover further information on areas of research, and research strength at James Cook University in Singapore.

Find out more about the Singapore campus of James Cook University.

Contacts

Research: Associate Professor Denise Dillon denise.dillon@jcu.edu.au

JCU Library: Jayshree Mamtora jayshree.mamtora@jcu.edu.au

Media: Ms Pinky Sibal pinky.sibal@jcu.edu.au / Ms Hoe Shu Rin shurin.hoe@jcu.edu.au