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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Danny Kingsley is the Executive Officer for the Australian Open Access Support Group. Her role is to advocate for open access. Rather than lock up knowledge in costly journals, increasingly ...

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?

In August, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memo directing all federal agencies to form plans to make all federally funded research publications and data publicly ...

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 ...

UNESCO has launched its Open Access Repository (OAR) making more than 300 on-line books, reports, and articles freely available. The OAR will operate under a new open licensing system developed by the ...

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. Where articles are published via ...

CWRU and KSL support researchers of all levels publishing open access (OA) through policies, publisher agreements, and access to expert staff. In March 2024, the Faculty Senate approved the Faculty OA ...