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Open Access Resources
- The publishing trap - The Publishing Trap is a board game from the UK Copyright Literacy team that allows participants to explore the impact of scholarly communications choices and discuss the role of open access in research by following the lives of four researchers – from doctoral research to their academic legacies.
- The STIP Compass - The STIP Compass is an initiative of the European Commission and the OECD to collect together in one place quantitative and qualitative data on national trends in science, technology and innovation (STI) policy. The portal supports the continuous monitoring and analysis of countries’ STI policies and aims to become a central platform for policy research and advice supporting government officials, analysts and scholars. Data is freely accessible following the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable). The STIP Compass incorporates more than 500 interactive dashboards and provides a sophisticated search tool with smart filtering that facilitates policy discovery.
- Open Access Spectrum Evaluation Tool - The Open Access Spectrum (OAS) Evaluation Tool quantitatively scores journals' degrees of openness.
- DPMonline – Provides templates for data management plans, according to different specific requirements listed in funder policy documents.
- (VIDEO) Open Access in RRI means (RRI Tools)
- (VIDEO) Open Access Explained!! (Piled Higher and Deeper - PHD Comics)
- (VIDEO) What is Open Access? (SHB Online)
- (VIDEO) Go Open Access - I. What is Open Access? (open-access net)
- (VIDEO) Understanding Open Access (Wiley)
- 1science – a comprehensive abstract indexing system providing fee-based & freely accessible scholarly articles (in peer-reviewed journals).
- BioMed Central (BMC) - BMC is part of Springer Nature. It has a portofolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC series. Although the journals published by BMC are mainly covering areas of biomedicine, there is some coverage in the areas of chemistry, physics and mathematics.
- BookBoon – Provides open access to downloadable textbooks and business e-books (downloads in pdf formats) in several domains.
- COAR – Confederation of Open Access Repositories. The confederation is an association of academic institutions and research of European, Asian, North American and Latin American countries that aims to strengthen the global networks of open access repositories.
- DART – Europe e-Theses Portal. It is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses in a single portal. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).
- DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books. Provides access to OA books and metadata. It provides the opportunity for aggregators to integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries to integrate the directory into their online catalogues, while helping scholars and students to discover the books.
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals. Provides a service that is compiling a verified, searchable, index of OA journals.
- E-LIS - E-prints in Library & Information Sciences - e-LIS is an international digital repository for Library and Information Science (LIS), including Communication. Because librarians are so involved in open access advocacy, e-LIS is a key to encourage open access for all repositories, by giving librarians the experience they need to speak with confidence when talking with researchers and open access archives, and the experience to provide the best possible assistance to self-archiving faculty.
- Electronic Journals Library – provides access to full-text articles online, some of them which are accessible free of charge to anyone. The journals are presented in lists sorted by research area. An updated list is generated by the database according to the member library's specifications each time it is accessed.
- European Data Portal - The European Data Portal harvests the metadata of public data made available across Europe. Data and resources are organised in a sectorial categorization.
- European Open Data Portal - (EU ODP) provides access to open data published by EU institutions and bodies.
- EUROPEANA – EU digital platform for cultural heritage collections, organised in several thematic areas.
- GOAP - Global Open Access Platform, run by UNESCO. IT presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information in 158 countries worldwide. The GOAP is designed to provide necessary information for policy-makers to: 1) Learn about the global OA environment; 2) View their country’s status; and 3) Understand where and why OA has been most successful.
- HighWire Press – It is one of the largest archives of free online full-text articles.
- Hindawi (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), one of the world’s largest publishers of peer-reviewed, fully Open Access journals, covering the natural and applied sciences, agriculture and medicine.
- How can I share it - provides information on all aspects of scholarly sharing, including practical information and tools to ensure a quick and easy article sharing.
- LA Referencia - Red Federada Latinoamericana de Repositorios Institucionales de Documentación Científica en América Latina. Was launched in 2012 to promote the creation of a regional strategy for IR. Presently, it brings together about 9 national nodes and aggregates almost 1,5 million documents.
- OAD – Open Access Directory – is a compendium of simple factual lists about OA. It compiles many information about data repositories, disciplinary repositories, among many other OA topics.
- OADT – Open Access Theses and Dissertations compiles OA graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
- OAIster – a catalog for OA Ressources. OAIster records are fully accessible through WorldCat.org.
- OAPEN – Open Access publishing in European networks. An online library and publications platform containing freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
- OECD iLibrary - OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.
- OpenAIR – the EU repository linked to the Participant Portal (for H2020 projects reporting). It offers functionalities to researchers, data providers, research administrators and funders.
- OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories. The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
- OpenUP Hub - OpenUP Hub is an open, dynamic and collaborative knowledge environment that systematically captures, organizes and categorizes research outcomes, best practices, tools and guidelines.
- OpenMinTeD - OpenMinTeD is an H2020 project that has set out to boost the use of Text and Data Mining (TDM) in Open Science, by bringing together in a cloud-based infrastructure a significant number of high quality state of the art TDM tools and applications and the biggest dataset of Open Access scientific and scholarly content ready to be mined, linked to OpenAIRE and CORE. Its vision of creating an open and secure e-infrastructure where researchers and TDM experts can share their resources and collaboratively create, discover, share and re-use new knowledge mined from text-based content sources has been accomplished.
- Open Science Directory – It is a search tool for OA journals and journals in special programs for developing countries, providing access to more tham 13000 scientific journals.
- OpenThesis – is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.
- Paperity – It is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, "gold" and "hybrid". Its ultimate goal is to aggregate 100% of Open Access literature, published in any place around the world, in any field of research.
- PASTEUR4OA - (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research) was a FP7 project, aiming to promote the implementation of OA. The project provides toolkits for Research Performing Organizations and Research Funders as well as other documentation regarding the implementation of OA.
- Peer J – The Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences is a peer-reviewed and OA journal publishing primary research and reviews in biology, life sciences, environmental sciences, and medicine.
- PLOS – Public Library of Science. PLOS publications covers the areas of biology, computational biology, genetics, medicine, pathogens, and Neglected tropical diseases. It allows authors to share preprints of their articles.
- PLOS ONE - is the first multidisciplinary OA journal covering areas from the natural sciences, medical research, engineering, as well as the related social sciences and humanities.
- Re3data – Registry of Research Data Repositories, covering research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It is poss9ible to perform searches by subject, content type or country.
- ROAD – Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources. Providing access to Open Access Resources and to the ISSN Portal – linked to the ISSN Register, the international database which contains key identification information about print and digital journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and scholarly blogs and Open Access scholarly resources published in more than 100 countries.
- ROAR - Registry of Open Access Repositories. ROAR is a searchable, international Registry of Open Access Repositories indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. It aims to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world.
- ROARMAP - Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. ROARMAP is a searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders. Such policies request or require that researchers provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article by depositing it in an open access repository.
- SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals and other Latin America countries (among others). SciELO interface provides access to its serials collection via an alphabetic list of titles or a subject list or a search form by word of serial titles, publisher names, city of publication and subject.
- Science 2.0 – Platform with articles in the areas of Physical Sciences, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences and Culture.
- SHERPA/JULIET - listing research funders’ open access policies. JULIET is a searchable database that provides quick summaries of funding agencies´ grant conditions regarding self-archiving of research publications and data. It also provides statistics on open access journals and policies.
- SHERPA/ROMEO - RoMEO provides a searchable database of publishers´ copyright and self-archiving policies for preprints and postprints. It is aimed at users already familiar with open access and shows which publishers comply with funding agencies´ conditions on open access.
- Springer Open – provides the possibility to publish journals and books in open access.
- Taylor&Francis Open and Routledge Open - provides the possibility to publish journals and books in open access. The authors may benefit from support to practice OA.
- Wiley Open Access – Provides open access to journals across many research disciplines as well as support for OA authors.
- WorldWideScience.org – The Global Science Gateway - It is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals and provides a one-stop searching of databases from around the world.
- ZENODO – an EU open access repository.
