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 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 ...

The legal alternative route to OA is self-archiving, also known as green or repository open access. Institutional repositories are online archives that collect and disseminate the research outputs of ...

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 ...

The institution must have an institutional repository, or participate in a consortial repository. Most schools launch a repository before adopting a policy to fill it, but some do it the other way ...

Providing support for the Open Access repository community from institutions, countries, regions and disciplines, through international cooperation and information sharing is an important objective ...

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, ...

To use the Journal Checker Tool enter the name of the journal you wish to publish with, your research funder and your current institution. This information will then be checked against the publisher ...

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can explore and reuse millions of digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections (2.8 million at February 2020 launch). We have released these images ...

Open Access is a publishing model that makes research freely and permanently available online for everyone to read, download and reuse. Research published open access reaches a wider audience, often ...