This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. Where articles are published via ...

This page is part of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). As you consider different OA journals, bear in mind that some will be high in quality, impact, and prestige. Some will be low. In this ...

Open Access is academic publications that are free to read and often have various re-use rights utilizing Creative Commons licenses. Research can be Open Access through publishing or archiving. Open ...

Traditional open access repositories are designed for sharing quantitative data. But what about qualitative data – non-numeric information and concepts such as case studies or interview transcripts?

Here, a librarian and master of information student offer insight into facets of open access publishing and the challenges relating to it Open access publishing continues to gain ground, with ...

There are plenty of myths about open access – are any of them true? Open lock image from www.shutterstock.com Rather than lock up knowledge in costly journals, increasingly universities and ...

UNESCO has launched its Open Access Repository (OAR) making more than 300 on-line books, reports, and articles freely available. The OAR will operate under a new open licensing system developed by the ...

The options available to you when you choose to publish gold and green open access. Publishing open access means that you can contribute to a world where there are no barriers to important research.

ETH Zurich aims at disseminating research results as widely as possible based on the principle of Open Access. The ETH open access policy calls upon all of ETH Zurich's scientists to play an active ...

Open Access papers are freely available to read, download, and share. Authors retain copyright under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, ...