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Open Access

Open Access (OA) is a scholarly publishing model which allows immediate, free, and unrestricted use of electronic resources, including academic journals and articles, ebooks, data, as well as software, audio, video, and other multi-media.

• "Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities." (2003, October 22). https://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration
• Peter Suber. (2004). "A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access," http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm
• Peter Suber. (2012). Open Access (the book), https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book)
• UNESCO. (n.d.) "What is Open Access?" UNESCO Open Access Publications, https://en.unesco.org/open-access/what-open-access

Directories

• Open Access Directory: The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. OAD is a wiki and we count on our users to keep these lists accurate, comprehensive, and up to date. The OAD is hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University and supervised by an independent editorial board.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations: OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,243,318 theses and dissertations.
• OAPEN: OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed. All data is freely available.
• CORE: CORE harvests research papers from sources such as institutional and subject repositories, and open access and hybrid journals. CORE currently contains 207,255,818 open access articles collected from 10,589 data providers around the world.
• OpenDOAR: OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.
• OpenGrey: System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, is your open access to 700,000 bibliographical references of grey literature produced in Europe. Examples of grey (gray) literature include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers, and some official publications.
• Semantic Scholar: Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community. Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI.