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"At it’s most fundamental Open Access is when publications are freely available online to all at no cost and with limited restrictions with regards reuse" (Springer, 2023).
"Open access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via libraries)" (Open Access, n.d.).
Your assignment, a synthesis essay;featuring;The Back Room requires scholarly and peer reviewed resources. If researching online, open access journals may be part of your search results. Tt is useful to know how to identify an online academic journal that is not part of a database.
Archer Library's A to Z List includes open access resources, such as DOAJ.
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
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 publishers offer open access databases and journals as well.
Resources for academic journals and papers. Not all content is OA, take time to review the open/closed lock icons to verify what is freely available.