Spanish Language & Hispanic Studies

"Open access (OA) is free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access, for any user, web-wide, to digital scientific and scholarly material, primarily research articles published in peer-reviewed journals. OA means that any individual user, anywhere, who has access to the Internet, may link, read, download, store, print-off, use, and data-mine the digital content of that article. An OA article usually has limited copyright and licensing restrictions." (Wikipedia, May 15, 2008.)

Right now, there are two types of OA collections that primarily concern academic researchers.

• OA journals - costs to produce are covered through sponsorships, in-kind contributions, fees, or other sources of support; find them in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
• OA repositories - institutional, society and government online archives provide free access to articles (usually pre-prints) and can also include supplementary materials, such as data, working papers, and images; find them in the Registry of Open Access Repositories.
  

Use the Open Access Webliography for comprehensive information on all things OA.