List of open access projects
Encyclopedia
Some of the most important open access publishing projects or lists of such projects are listed below.
is available for institutions who do not yet have a repository
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by their authors, as well as other kinds of material. Most repositories are distributed, institutional and cross-disciplinary, and some are central, cross-institutional and discipline-based. Here are some examples of central, discipline-based repositories (For (Institutional Repository|Institutional Repositories]], see Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
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OA Journal Software
Free, open source software for open access journal publishing is available for those wishing to start up new journals, for example, the Open Journal Systems (OJS)http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ developed by the Public Knowledge Projecthttp://www.pkp.ubc.ca/index.html and HyperJournalhttp://www.hjournal.org/ developed by volunteers, but now partially funded by the political science faculty of Pisa Universityhttp://www.hjournal.org/team. While OJS and HyperJournal are designed for academic publishing, they can be used by anyone; for instance there is a group of grade 8 girls in Vancouver, British Columbia, who use OJS to publish their own peer-reviewed journal.OA Repository Software
Free, open source software for creating open access Institutional RepositoriesInstitutional repository
An Institutional repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution....
is available for institutions who do not yet have a repository
Registry of Open Access Repositories
ROAR is a searchable international Registry of Open Access Repositories indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. ROAR was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003...
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- DSpaceDSpaceDSpace is an open source software package that provides the tools for management of digital assets, and is commonly used as the basis for an institutional repository. It supports a wide variety of data, including books, theses, 3D digital scans of objects, photographs, film, video, research data...
- EprintsEPrintsEPrints is a free and open source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It shares many of the features commonly seen in Document Management systems, but is primarily used for institutional...
- FedoraFedora (software)Fedora is a modular architecture built on the principle that interoperability and extensibility is best achieved by the integration of data, interfaces, and mechanisms as clearly defined modules...
Open access publishers
- Libertas Academica Ltd
- Ivyspring International Publisher
- Molecular Diversity Preservation International
- Public Library of SciencePublic Library of ScienceThe Public Library of Science is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license...
- Hindawi (49 full open access STM journals)
- Scholarly Exchange
- Medknow PublicationsMedknow PublicationsMedKnow Publications is an academic publisher of open access peer-reviewed academic journals published on behalf of scholarly societies and learned associations. MedKnow publishes over 135 print and online journals. Its journal websites use the OpenURL standard, making it easy for libraries to link...
(Publishers of Biomedical Journal from India) - Copernicus open-access journals
- Academic Journals of The College of Mexico
- Journal of Medical Internet ResearchJournal of Medical Internet ResearchThe Journal of Medical Internet Research is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal established in 1999 covering eHealth and "healthcare in the Internet age". It is edited and published by Gunther Eysenbach. The journal is widely regarded as one of the pioneers in open access publishing...
(JMIR) http://www.jmir.org/ - one of the first Open Access journals in medicineMedicineMedicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.... - BioMed CentralBioMed CentralBioMed Central is a UK-based, for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access journal publication. BMC, and its sister companies Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central, publish over 200 scientific journals. Most BMC journals are now published only online. BMC describes itself as the...
- SciELOSciEloSciELO is a bibliographic database and a model for cooperative electronic publishing in developing countries originally from Brazil, supported by the Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo and the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development SciELO (Scientific...
- Scholarly Exchange
- eScholarship
- United States National Academy of SciencesUnited States National Academy of SciencesThe National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
Institutional and Central Repositories
A repository is different from a journal. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles from many journals self-archivedSelf-archiving
To self-archive is to deposit a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author's own institutional...
by their authors, as well as other kinds of material. Most repositories are distributed, institutional and cross-disciplinary, and some are central, cross-institutional and discipline-based. Here are some examples of central, discipline-based repositories (For (Institutional Repository|Institutional Repositories]], see Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Registry of Open Access Repositories
ROAR is a searchable international Registry of Open Access Repositories indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. ROAR was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003...
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- arXivArXivThe arXiv |Chi]], χ) is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all...
: Physics/Mathematics OA Archive (central) - CogPrintsCogPrintsCogPrints is an electronic archive in which authors can self-archive papers in any area of Cognitive Science, including Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science , Philosophy , Biology CogPrints is an electronic archive in which authors can self-archive papers in...
: Cognitive Sciences OA Archive (central) - CitebaseCitebaseCitebase Search is an experimental, semi-autonomous citation index for the free, online research literature created by Tim Brody at the University of Southampton, UK. It harvests open access e-prints from OAI-PMH compliant archives, parses and links their references and indexes the metadata in a...
: Citation-linked browser (harvested from distributed websites) - CiteseerCiteSeerCiteSeer was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers. It is often considered to be the first automated citation indexing system and was considered a predecessor of academic search tools such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search. It was replaced by...
: Computer Science (harvested from distributed websites) - OpenMED@NIC: An open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences
- PubMed CentralPubMed CentralPubMed Central is a free digital database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences. It grew from the online Entrez PubMed biomedical literature search system. PubMed Central was developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine as an online archive of biomedical journal...
: the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature - Research Papers in Economics: a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 45 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.
- NNMATH a project in progress to create an open access database of reviews of mathematical articles.
- arXiv
Harvesters and Registries of Repositories
- The University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registry
- Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
- OAIster list
- Openarchives.eu
- Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR Registry of Open Access Repositories)
- Openarchives.eu - The European Guide to OAI-PMH Digital Repositories in the World
Publishers of hybrid open access journals
- SpringerSpringer Science+Business Media- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...
(Offers open access as an option in all its 1200+ journals) - ElsevierElsevierElsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....
(Offers open access as an option in many of its 2000+ journals)
For a fuller list, see: Hybrid open access journal
Hybrid Open Access journal
A newly popular variation on open access journals is the Hybrid Open Access Journal. This refers to a journal where only some of the articles are open access...
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Lists of open access journals (all fields, not institution-specific)
- Directory of Open Access JournalsDirectory of Open Access JournalsThe Directory of Open Access Journals is website maintained by Lund University which lists open access journals. The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards by exercising peer review or editorial quality control and "use a funding...
(DOAJ) - JournalSeekJournalSeekJournalSeek is an online database covering academic journals. It includes journals published by over 4500 academic publishers....
- LivRe
- Open J-Gate
- University of Nevada Collection of Free Electronic Journals
- RevistasCSIC.es Open access publishing Scientific Journals published by CSICCSICThe Spanish National Research Council is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe...
, covering subjects in Science, Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. Articles in Spanish, - Perspectivia.netPerspectivia.netPerspectivia.net is an international and interdisciplinary online academic publication platform. The platform publishes articles and reviews in the humanities...
- Die Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek English version)] (EZB) Increasingly out-of-date at 2010.
- Jan Szczepanski's lists of OA-journals
For a more complete list, see:
- the category, Open access journals
- List of open access journals with Wikipedia entries
Lists of open access journals limited to certain fields
Open access encyclopedias
- Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a freely-accessible online encyclopedia of philosophy maintained by Stanford University. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors from over 65 academic institutions worldwide...
: an academic encyclopedia, produced by philosophy scholars - WikipediaWikipediaWikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
: not necessarily written by academic authors - Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science: "a natural expansion of the work carried out preparing the Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede, published in Italian in 2002 (Rome: Urbaniana University Press - Citta Nuova, 2002), partly translated into English and offered here on-line."
Open access image databases
- CAPL: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon Multilingual, visual lexicon from Washington & Jefferson College
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- German National Image Database for Art and Architecture
Open access research tools
- JURN a search-engine for 3,800 open ejournals in the arts and humanities
Tracking open access developments
- SPARC Open Access Newsletter, news and analysis by Peter SuberPeter SuberPeter Suber is the creator of the game Nomic and a leading voice in the open access movement. He is a senior research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, the open access project director at Public Knowledge, a senior researcher at SPARC , and a Fellow at Harvard's and...
- American Scientist Open Access Forum, covering open access developments since its founding by Stevan HarnadStevan HarnadStevan Harnad is a cognitive scientist.- Career :Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology...
in 1998 - Open Access Archivangelism, a weblog by Stevan HarnadStevan HarnadStevan Harnad is a cognitive scientist.- Career :Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology...
Policies and timelines
- Peter Suber's list of the better lists
- Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)ROARMAPThe Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies is a searchable international registry charting the growth of Open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed...
- ROMEO/Eprints Registry of Journal Self-Archiving Policies
- SHERPA/RoMEO Registry of Publisher Self-Archiving Policies
- Peter Suber's lists related to the OA movement
- Peter Suber's list of OA-related conferences and workshops
- Peter Suber's timeline of the OA movement
- Peter Suber's list of what you can do to promote open access
- An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 25 Nobel Prize Winners (August 26, 2004) in support of a bill requiring all research funded by the National Institutes of HealthNational Institutes of HealthThe National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
to be published in an open access form