Open Access in a Nutshell
What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about.
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- Directory of Open Access JournalsFind open access journals by title and subject. Some content is searchable.
- SHERPA/RoMEODirectory of permissions for journal copyright transfer agreements.
- Creative CommonsProvides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
- OAIsterSearches open archive resources harvested by the Open Archives Initiative, including digitized articles, data sets, multimedia, and more.
Introduction
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Rising journal prices, public access mandates, and the impact of the Internet on the exhange of information are all rapidly changing the world of scholarly communication. The links below provide an overview and history of Open Access and related issues that affect research and publication.
- Open Access OverviewAn introduction to the concept of open access by Peter Suber.
- Scholarly Communication Toolkit for FacultyFrom the Association of College & Research Libraries.
- What You Can do to Promote Open AccessFor everyone, including faculty, administrators, librarians, publishers and learned societies. By Peter Suber.
- SPARCThe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
- Create ChangeFrom the Association of Research Libraries and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).
- Resources for Authors (from SPARC)For faculty, a guide to securing important rights to published articles.
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