In celebration of Open Access Week 2025, we’re shining a spotlight on how Griffith is championing openness in creative research through our Creative Works platform.
Open access (OA) makes scholarly outputs freely available online without paywalls or subscriptions. While OA is often associated with journal articles and datasets, its principles apply equally to creative research. Creative Works brings this openness to creative fields, giving researchers and artists a space to share and showcase their work.
What is Creative Works?
Creative Works is Griffith’s dedicated platform for sharing creative research outputs, from visual arts, design and media to 3D models, audio and video. It provides a structured, university-supported environment where creative work can be openly disseminated, discovered and cited.
How Creative Works supports open access
- Open dissemination and discoverability
Depositing your work in Creative Works makes it publicly visible, indexed and searchable. Each item receives a persistent identifier (such as a DOI), improving citation, linking and visibility. - Licensing and reuse clarity
All publicly shared items have a clear license, including Creative Commons licences, so others know how they can reuse, remix or adapt your work. - Aligned with FAIR principles
Creative Works follows the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), ensuring that creative outputs are not only open but also structured for discovery, integration and reuse. - Trusted institutional infrastructure
Creative Works is part of Griffith’s broader open access ecosystem, alongside the Griffith Research Online (GRO) repository. The Library supports researchers by verifying submissions, assigning DOIs, managing copyright and linking outputs to researcher profiles through Griffith Experts. - Compliance with funder and policy mandates
Many research funders now require open availability of data and creative outputs. Griffith’s open access policies and infrastructure, including Creative Works and GRO, help researchers meet these requirements confidently.
Spotlight: Temporal Landscapes by Robert Andrew
A recent example of open creative research is Robert Andrew’s Temporal Landscapes, which explores the artist’s connection with Yawuru culture and Country. Robert consults with the Yawuru language group to grow his connection with culture and Country though language. His installation expresses the constant flux of the environment and the deep knowledge systems embedded in land and water. By sharing this work via Creative Works, Andrew ensures his research is freely accessible to a global audience.
Explore more of Griffith’s creative research at Creative Works and learn how to deposit your own outputs via our Research repositories webpage.
