Open Access Resources and Links
OA Tools
- Sherpa/Romeo: Database of publisher copyright and self-archiving policies
- Sherpa/Juliet: Database of research funders' open access policies
- ROARmap: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies
- Predatory Open Access Journals and Publishers: Guide to checking credibility of unfamiliar titles
- Beall's List (defunct): List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers
OA Content
- Open Access Button: Crawls the web for OA version of articles
- OA Library: a shared "academic search engine and publisher"
- Unpaywall Chrome Extension: Full-text of research papers as you browse
- Directory of Open Access Journals: 10,000 fully open access journals
- Directory of Open Access Books: 2000 academic open access books from 64 publishers
- Open DOAR: Directory of university and subject-based open access repositories
Extensions
- Unpaywall Chrome Extension: Finds legal, full-text of research papers as you browse
Secondary Sources
- Canadian Association for Research Libraries. Identifying and avoiding predatory publishers: a primer for researchers. Available here.
- Crow, Raym. (2009). INCOME MODELS FOR OPEN ACCESS: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT PRACTICE. SPARC Consulting Group. Available here.
- Faye Chadwell, Shan C. Sutton, (2014) "The future of open access and library publishing", New Library World, Vol. 115 Issue: 5/6,pp. 225-236. Available here., preprint available here.
- Glushko, Bobby, Rex Shoyama. (2015). Unpacking open access: A theoretical framework for understanding open access initiatives. Feliciter, 1, 1-6.
- Pinfield, Stephen. (2015). Making Open Access Work: The “State-of-the-art” in Providing Open Access Scholarly Literature. Online Information Review, 39(5), 604-636. Available here.
- Royster, Paul. (2016). A brief history of open access. Presentation for Academic Activities Series, Love Library, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 15, 2016. Available here.
- Tennant, Jonathan P, et al. (2016). The Academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review. F1000Research, 5(632), 4-23. (doi:10.12688/f1000research.8460.3)