Information about open access, what it means, and how to utilize OA resources.
Provided by the Internet Archive and recommended by Suber as "the best edition for cutting and pasting" (Harvard Open Access Project, 2021).
From the publisher "In these texts, Suber makes the case for open access to research; answers common questions, objections, and misunderstandings; analyzes policy issues; and documents the growth and evolution of open access during its most critical early decade " (Internet Archive. 2016).
From the Publisher: "The basic idea of open access is that it makes copyrightable works available without all of the access barriers associated with the "all rights reserved" model. Open access contrasts with more traditional models of publishing in which copies of works are made directly available only to paying customers" (Internet Archive, 2016).
In Open Access Explained, Shockey and Eisen discuss open access publishing and detail two important components of open access, research articles being free to read AND free to re-use (2012).
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"Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions" (Suber, p. 4, 2012).
There are two main models of open access, gold and green, with a number of policy variations determined by the content publishers and institutional and subject-specific repositories. Policy examples from several publishers, including Springer and EBSCO, are provided below.
A selection of open access resources are available on the library's A to Z Database list. Here are a few examples.
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. Search indexed journals and articles
Open access to 1,550,463 e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, it includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
SSOAR collects and archives literature of relevance to the social sciences and makes it available in open access on the Internet in accordance with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
Other resources to consider when researching open access journals.