Open Access Publishing
Open Access Search Engines and Bibliographies
OAIster
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
Searches for and retrieves open access/freely available digital
resources from institutions and organizations around the world; BioMed Central, PubMed Central, National Academies Press, and
other open access and self-archiving repositiories are searched by
this service.
OpenDOAR: The Directory of
Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org
This site lists, describes and indexes digital repositories
that are open to public searching and data harvesting.
University of Maryland Libraries, Virtual Technical Reports
Center: EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the Web
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
"Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports,
or searchable extended abstracts of their technical
reports". Alphabetical by institution name (from
OpCit Project)
Subject Directory of Open Access Sites
All Topics | Agriculture | Business | Computer Science | Economics | Education | History | Information Science | Language | Law | Mathematics | Medicine | Political Science | Psychology | Science | Sociology
eScholarship Editions
http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/
Provides access to a growing collection of digital texts and
monographs, including more than 2,000 University of California Press
titles. A significant number of the electronic books are available
for free to the public.
eScholarship Repository
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
This free, open-access repository infrastructure supports the full
range of scholarly output, from pre-publication materials to
journals and peer-reviewed series.
National Academy Press (NAP)
http://books.nap.edu/
The publishing arm of the national academies, i.e. National Academy
of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine,
and National Research Council. It publishes all its books digitally
on the web, free of charge.
OAIster
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
Searches for and retrieves open access/freely available digital
resources from institutions and organizations around the world; BioMed Central, PubMed Central, National Academies Press, and
other open access and self-archiving repositiories are searched by
this service.
OpenDOAR: The Directory of
Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org
This site lists, describes and indexes digital repositories
that are open to public searching and data harvesting.
Organic Eprints (September 2002- ), established by the Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF), open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture.
Social
Science Research Network (SSRN)
http://www.ssrn.com/
Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc., working papers and
abstracts are provided by journals, publishers, and institutions for
distribution through SSRN's eLibrary, which consists of two parts: a
database containing abstracts of scholarly working
papers and forthcoming papers, and an Electronic Paper Collection
of downloadable full-text
documents. SSRN is composed of specialized research
networks/journals in the social sciences: Accounting, Economics,
Financial Economics, Legal Scholarship, Management, Negotiations.
Citeseer
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/citeseer.html
(1998- , aka ResearchIndex), developed at NEC Research
Institute, NJ, USA, caches openly accessible full-text research
papers on computer science found on the Web in Postscript and PDF
format for autonomous citation indexing.
Computing Research Repository
(CoRR)
http://www.acm.org/corr/
An open computer science repository, for preprints and papers that
are not published elsewhere.
Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (papers from 1994), led by the chair of theoretical computer science and new applications at the University of Trier. Research reports, surveys and books in computational complexity.
Berkeley Electronic Press
http://www.bepress.com/index.html
Berkeley Electronic Press, which includes a freely available working
papers archive, in the fields of economics, law, and political
science. Berkeley Electronic Press also publishes alternative journals, using locally
grown software to manage all aspects of production.
The
Review of Network Economics
http://www.rnejournal.com/
An electronic, peer-reviewed journal publishing papers on the
economics of network industries.
Social
Science Research Network (SSRN)
http://www.ssrn.com/
Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc., working papers and
abstracts are provided by journals, publishers, and institutions for
distribution through SSRN's eLibrary, which consists of two parts: a
database containing abstracts of scholarly working
papers and forthcoming papers, and an Electronic Paper Collection
of downloadable full-text
documents. SSRN is composed of specialized research
networks/journals in the social sciences: Accounting, Economics,
Financial Economics, Legal Scholarship, Management, Negotiations.
Working Papers in
Economics (WoPEc)
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc.html
A collection of links to working papers and articles in economics.
Many are free but some have restricted access.
British Education Index (1997- )
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bei/index.html
A freely accessible
database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and
electronic literature which supports educational research, policy
and practice, initially a project in the JISC Electronic Libraries
(eLib) Programme, administered by the Brotherton Library, University
of Leeds, Great Britain..
History Cooperative
http://www.historycooperative.org/
Provides full text access to recent issues of several top history
journals.
D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/
A solely online journal with a focus on issues related to digital
libraries, including articles on new technologies, applications, and
social and economic issues.
Digital Information in the Information Research Field
http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html
Listing of sources of online information and research in the fields
of information management, information science, and information
systems. The site includes journals and newsletters which
contain at least a portion of free material.
E-LIS, E-Prints in Library and Information Science
Open
Language Archives Community (OLAC)
http://www.language-archives.org/index.html
OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an
international partnership of institutions and individuals
who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language
resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current
practice for the digital archiving of language resources,
and (ii) developing a network of interoperating repositories
and services for housing and accessing such resources.
Berkeley Electronic Press
http://www.bepress.com/index.html
Berkeley Electronic Press, which includes a freely available working
papers archive, in the fields of economics, law, and political
science. Berkeley Electronic Press also publishes alternative journals, using locally
grown software to manage all aspects of production.
American Mathematical
Society (AMS), Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers
http://www.ams.org/global-preprints/
- Umbrella servers, which cover all areas of mathematics, e.g.
- Front for the Mathematics ArXiv, alternative arXiv interface http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/
- Mathematics Preprint Search System http://mathnet.preprints.org/MathNet.preprints
Biomed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BioMed Central is an independent
commercial publishing house that provides open access to biomedical
research.
Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
A web site collecting links to medical journals that offer their
contents online free of charge. In addition to linking to free
online medical journals, the site classifies them by the lag time
between print publication and free online access (no lag time, one
year, two years, etc.), and by language.
PubMed
Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/index.html
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of
Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life
sciences journal literature..
Berkeley Electronic Press
http://www.bepress.com/index.html
Berkeley Electronic Press, which includes a freely available working
papers archive, in the fields of economics, law, and political
science. Berkeley Electronic Press also publishes alternative journals, using locally
grown software to manage all aspects of production.
DOAJ: Political Science
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=47
Journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals that
pertain specifically to the field of political science.
CogPrints
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
An electronic archive for self-archived papers on cognition. Areas
included are: psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer
science, philosophy, biology, medicine, and anthropology as
well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical
sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
History and Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive (HTP Prints)
http://htpprints.yorku.ca/
An archive of online papers in psychology and the history of
psychology. In addition to journal articles, this resource archives
papers that are not suited to traditional journals in the
field, e.g. conference papers, highly illustrated papers, longer
essays, literature reviews, papers with a highly specific focus.
Psycoloquy
http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Articles and peer commentary in all areas of psychology as well as
cognitive science, neuroscience, behavioral biology, artificial
intelligence, robotics/vision, linguistics and philosophy
(Eprints.org archive).
arXiv
http://www.arXiv.org/
Main administration site at Cornell University, multiple mirrors
worldwide, manages access to research papers.
Astronomy
Preprints & Abstracts
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_preprint.html
Hosted by National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA,
linked list of sites, includes institutional preprint servers
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_preprint.html"
(from
OpCit
Project)
CERN Document
Server (CDS)
http://cdsweb/cern.ch/
Searchable Web interface to over 900,000 bibliographic records,
including 360,000 fulltext documents in particle physics and related
areas, covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs.
Ecology
Preprint Registry
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu:8504/esa/ppr/ppr.Query
(papers from July 2001), hosted at the National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, dissemination of new research
results destined for publication (i.e. not white papers or gray
literature), only preprints with a theoretical basis can be
submitted, the scope may be expanded to include submissions from the
entire discipline of ecology
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu:8504/esa/ppr/ppr.Query
E-Print
Network
http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
The Department of Energy's E-Print Network provides access to
electronic preprints in science and technology available from
diverse sites. The network is "a gateway to over 12,000 Web sites
and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied
sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such
as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear
sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information
technologies, and other disciplines of interest to DOE."
Highwire Press
free content
http://www.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl
"Highwire Press is an e-publishing company based at Stanford
University which operates many society e-journals, including a
number of high-profile titles including
British Medical Journal and
Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science (free after 6 months)". Years of accessibility
vary with each title.
Information Bridge
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
Provided by US Department of Energy (DOE), has open source to
full-text and bibliographic records of DOE research and development
reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental
sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information
science, renewable energy, and other topics. Contains full-text
documents produced and made available by the DOE National
Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward.
NTRS, NASA
Technical Reports Server
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/
Search interface for 18 databases
PhilSci Archive
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
An electronic archive for preprints of articles in the philosophy of
science.
PhysDoc -
Physics Documents Worldwide
http://de.physnet.net/PhysNet/physdoc.html
Offers lists of links to document sources, such as preprints,
research reports, annual reports, and list of publications of
worldwide distributed physics institutions and individual
physicists, ordered by continent, country and town.
PLoS: Public Library of Science
http://www.plos.org
Seven peer-reviewed open access journals: PLoS Biology, PLoS
Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens,
PLoS ONE, and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
TheScientificWorld
http://www.thescientificworld.com/
An online archive of research articles in many scientific fields,
with a search engine for obtaining results on specific topics. Some
free access is available to articles but many require payment.
SPARC-Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
American Research Libraries initiative to support reforms to
scholarly publishing and reducing price barriers. Partners include:
Directory of Open Access Journals; American Chemical Society; BioMed
Central; eScholarship and many more.
WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Electronic Journals and Newsletters
http://www.mcmaster.ca/socscidocs/w3virtsoclib/journals.htm
Collection of publications dealing at least to some extent with
sociology. Some free full text journals mixed in with abstract
listings and subscription journals.
Many thanks to the OpCit Project's Core Metalist of Open Access Eprint Archives for its many contributions to this list.
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