Open Access
OA - Scholarly Communication
- Directory of Open Access RepositoriesOpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
- PubMed CentralPubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Open Scholarship
The Association of Research Libraries categorizes Open Scholarship into three areas:
- OPEN ACCESS (e.g., Directory of Open Access Journals)
- OPEN DATA (e.g., NIH Guidelines)
- OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES / OER (e.g. OE Consortium, OER Commons, Find OER)
What is Open Access?
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
"Open access is the free, immediate, online availibility of research articles, coupled with the rights to use those articles fully in the digital environment."
Definition courtesy of SPARC - the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/about#sthash.j234CeVr.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
- Peter Suber's Open Access OverviewA deeper introduction to open access (OA), including Green (repositories) and Gold (journals) OA, licenses, business models and historical perspective. Please note that this is an archived copy of the original post, and that some links may be outdated.
- Open Access DirectoryThe Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.