ePublius
A python script that converts an ePub file to HTML, using a custom set of CSS rules, in order to create a site that can be used to embed in any website and provide an HTML reader for a book.…
OA books, OA articles, OA journals
OA books, OA articles, OA journals
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Lodel
Lodel, a free open source software developed by Cléo dedicated to Open Access publications in Humanities and Social Sciences. Lodel is an electronic editing software that is easy to use and adaptable for specific applications. He is a member of…
Metadata
Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use or manage an information resource. Metadata is often called data about data or information about information. The term ‘documentation’ encompasses all the information necessary…
Copyright
Copyright exists to protect the rights of the person(s) who has created a work and ensure that they receive due recognition for their contribution. As a property right is gives the copyright holder power over how the work is used,…
Repository
An online database of Open Access works. Repositories do not undertake peer review but do hold material that has been peer reviewed elsewhere. In addition repositories can hold ‘grey literature’ such as Theses, Discussion Papers, Datasets and other material.
Open Access
Open Access: making peer reviewed scholarly manuscripts freely available via the Internet, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to…
Hybrid journals
Hybrid journals are subscription journals that charge an extra fee to make a specific article Open Access while the remainder of the journal remains behind a paywall. This type of Gold Open Access is always accompanied by a fee.
Green Open Access
Making a version of work (usually an AAM) available in an open access repository. These can be institutional such as the Cambridge Repository or subject based, such as arXiv, PubMed Central, RePEc or SSRN. Placing work in ResearchGate or Academia.edu is not considered to be green open access. Green Open Access…
Gold Open Access
Open access at the time of publication. Gold Open Access can be considered to be ‘born Open Access’. Fully Open Access journals often (but not always) charge a fee for publication.
Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed…
Open Monograph Press
Open Monograph Press (OMP) is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes and, scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication. OMP can operate as a press…
Janeway
Janeway is a journal platform designed for publishing scholarly research material. It is developed and maintained by the Centre for Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. “Janeway” is a press and journal system designed for open-access publishing that…