OA books, OA articles, OA journals
OA books, OA articles, OA journals
Open Knowledge International is a global non-profit organisation focused on realising open data’s value to society by helping civil society groups access and use data to take action on social problems. Open Knowledge International does this in three ways: 1.)…
The FP7 project OpenAIRE aimed to support the implementation of the EC and ERC Open Access policies. Its successor OpenAIREplus was aimed at linking the aggregated research publications to the accompanying research and project information, datasets and author information.
The Open Definition sets out principles that define “openness” in relation to data and content. It makes precise the meaning of “open” in the terms “open data” and “open content” and thereby ensures quality and encourages compatibility between different pools…
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 40% of which comes from sponsors and 60% from members and publisher members. All…
One way of providing Open Access is to publish in an Open Access Journal. These journals make their articles available for free by funding their publication services in other ways than through end-user subscriptions. A lot of journals fund their…
Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. Figshare allows users to upload any file format to be previewed in the browser so that any research output,…
Zenodo a research data repository for all disciplines created by OpenAIRE and CERN.
Subject-based repositories collect publications and grey-literature in a particular discipline or a range of disciplines. ArXiv.org for the sciences and Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) are good examples. Note that the last one has recently been bought by Elsevier, which…
RoMEO is part of the SHERPA Services based at the University of Nottingham. RoMEO has collaborative relationships with many international partners, who contribute time and effort to developing and maintaining the service. Current RoMEO development is funded by JISC.
Like Academia.edu, ResearchGate is a social networking site for scholars to share papers and find collaborators. This is not the equivalent of an institutional repository. It doesn’t meet all the necessary open access requirements, like long term preservation, metadata harvesting, etc. Above all…
A database / repository for storing preprints, usually for one specific discipline. Examples are ArXiv, SSRN, LawArXiv, SocArXiv, etc. etc.
Process of evaluation of an academic article or book, prior to publication to ensure a certain standard of quality. Peers are experts in the article’s subject or discipline. There are many ways of reviewing, e.g. double blind peer review, board reviews…