This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

Here, a librarian and master of information student offer insight into facets of open access publishing and the challenges relating to it Open access publishing continues to gain ground, with ...

Open Access is academic publications that are free to read and often have various re-use rights utilizing Creative Commons licenses. Research can be Open Access through publishing or archiving. Open ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. For more information about open ...

There are plenty of myths about open access – are any of them true? Open lock image from www.shutterstock.com Rather than lock up knowledge in costly journals, increasingly universities and ...

Traditional open access repositories are designed for sharing quantitative data. But what about qualitative data – non-numeric information and concepts such as case studies or interview transcripts?

Helda, the University’s digital repository, contains all the open access publications of the University of Helsinki. Helda contains peer-reviewed articles, dissertations, theses, books and publication ...

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can explore and reuse millions of digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections (2.8 million at February 2020 launch). We have released these images ...

This page is part of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). As you consider different OA journals, bear in mind that some will be high in quality, impact, and prestige. Some will be low. In this ...

Open access (OA) means free access to information and unrestricted use of electronic resources for everyone. Any kind of digital content can be OA, from texts and data to software, audio, video, and ...