OA books, OA articles, OA journals
OA books, OA articles, OA journals
DOI, or Digital Object Identifier is a type of persistent identifier used to uniquely identify objects. The DOI system is particularly used for electronic documents such as journal articles. However, DOIs are also used for datasets and thus media files…
DOAJ, or Directory of Open Access Journals, was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals and today contains ca. 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities. Currently there…
DOAB, or Directory of Open Access Books, was launched in 2012. Its primary aim is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Currently there are 282 books…
Basically these journals are free to read and free to publish in. In the humanities you see quite a lot of Diamond Open Access journals. They charge no APCs and are often financed by sponsorships, grants, institutional funds, etc.
CC Attribution (BY) – a licence clause that allows the reuse, sharing, and remixing of materials providing the original author is appropriately attributed. Aside from attribution the CC-BY licence has no other restrictions on copying. Compatible with free cultural works.
A non-profit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others within the framework of national copyright laws. The Creative Commons suite of free copyright licenses provides a simple, standardized way to give users…
A BPC or Book Processing Charge is a publishing fee paid to the publisher to make a book free at point of access.
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities of 22 October 2003 was written in English. It is one of the milestones of the Open Access movement. By July 2016 over 565 institutions worldwide signed the…
A new digital academic publication form of re-edited and recombined images and sounds from preexisting film, TV and digital works.
Social networking platform whose primary aim is to connect researchers with common interests. 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 it’s…
Fulcrum is a publishing platform currently under development that helps publishers present the full richness of their authors’ research outputs in a durable, discoverable, and flexible form. Flexible By adopting an agile development approach and working in partnership with the…
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research. Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story…