International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

An ISSN is an 8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media–print and electronic. An ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) identifies all continuing resources, irrespective of their medium (print or electronic):…

International Standard Book Number

An ISBN is an International Standard Book Number. ISBNs were 10 digits in length up to the end of December 2006, but since 1 January 2007 they now always consist of 13 digits. ISBNs are calculated using a specific mathematical…

Get Full Text Research (GetFTR)

New service from publishers to streamline access to research Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) is a new, free to use solution that enables faster access for researchers to the published journal articles they need. When researchers are using online tools…

Access to Research

Access to Research gives free, walk-in access to over 15 million academic articles in participating public libraries across the UK. Students and independent researchers can now access many of the world’s best academic papers from leading publishers who have made…

Survey reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing

A survey of publishers with journals indexed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published; what types of organisations are publishing the content; on how publishing standards are being accepted…

Paperity

Paperity is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, “gold” and “hybrid”. It: gives readers easy and unconstrained access to thousands of journals from hundreds of disciplines, in one central location; helps authors reach their target audience,…

Open Access Button

About We urgently need trusted knowledge that’s fairly owned, created, and read. We’re addressing that by creating a family of library-aligned, open source tools built not-for-profit, but for-change. Our tools make it simpler to do research without subscriptions. The project…

OpenEdition

OpenEdition brings together four platforms dedicated to electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences. OpenEdition is a comprehensive digital publishing infrastructure at the service of scientific information in the Humainties and social Sciences. the OpenEdition portal includes four publishing…