Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY) continues to open learning opportunities for people who are not studying at the university. Throughout 2025, UNY provided three kinds of learning resources that anyone can use free of charge: online courses with certificates, campus facilities and open-access academic journals.

First, UNY offers free short courses through GLACIER (Global Access for Independent Learning), the university's official online learning platform. One of them is the Scam Ready ASEAN training, themed "Grow Cyber Resilience Together: Jaga Sama-Sama, Aman Sama-Sama". The Faculty of Education runs this training with the ASEAN Foundation and Google.org to raise public awareness of online fraud. Participants who complete the training receive an official certificate worth four lesson hours (4 JP). GLACIER also hosts a free course, Creative Pedagogy for Primary English Teachers, designed for English teachers in primary schools

Second, members of the public can use several UNY campus facilities free of charge, namely working space, study room, both indoor and outdoor, such as in Sugeng Mardiyono Building, Pendopo, and Digital Library. These facilities are available at working hours Monday to Saturday at no cost. For example, Rahmat and his team as a local resident said that this study room help them as a comfort place, has full facilities to finish their project.

Third, UNY gives open access to more than 40 academic journals through its portal, journal.uny.ac.id. Several journals, such as Literature and Literacy and Mathematics Education Review, follow an open-access policy. Mathematics Education Review even publishes its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) licence, so readers may copy, share and adapt the content as long as they credit the original authors. Teachers, researchers, practitioners and members of the public can read and download articles without a subscription.

Through these services, UNY aims to make its campus a source of lifelong learning that is open to everyone