Open Access Publishing
Open Access Search Engines and Bibliographies
OAIster
Searches for and retrieves open access/freely available digital
resources from institutions and organizations around the world;
BioMed Central,
PubMed Central and
other open access and self-archiving repositiories are searched by
this service.
OpenDOAR: The Directory of
Open Access Repositories
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
"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 | Mathematics | Medicine | Political Science | Psychology | Science | Sociology
eScholarship Repository
This free, open-access repository infrastructure supports the full
range of scholarly output, from pre-publication materials to
journals and peer-reviewed series.
Open Access Directory - Data Repositories This is a list of repositories and databases for open data.
Open Access Directory - Discipline Repositories This is a list of OA disciplinary respositories (also called central or subject repositories). Unless otherwise noted, they accept relevant deposits regardless of the author's institutional affiliation.
University of Maryland Libraries, Virtual Technical Reports
Center: EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the Web
"Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports,
or searchable extended abstracts of their technical
reports". Alphabetical by institution name (from
OpCit Project)
Organic Eprints Organic Eprints is an international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture. The archive contains full-text papers in electronic form together with bibliographic information, abstracts and other metadata.
Social
Science Research Network (SSRN)
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
(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)
An open computer science repository, for preprints and papers that
are not published elsewhere. Click on "Search the Repository".
Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity Research reports, surveys and books in computational complexity.
EconPapers A collection of links to working papers, journal articles, software and books on economics.
Social
Science Research Network (SSRN)
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.
British Education Index (1997- )
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..
ERIC is a comprehensive database containing abstracts of journal articles, reports, curriculum guides, conference proceedings, etc. It covers all areas of education at all age and grade levels. ERIC Documents 1993+ are now freely available online. Documents before 1993 are in the library on microfiche. The library's microfiche subscription ended with ED455358.
History Cooperative
Provides full text access to recent issues of several top history
journals.
D-Lib Magazine
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
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)
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.
Mathematics Preprint Search System
Biomed Central
BioMed Central is an independent
commercial publishing house that provides open access to biomedical
research.
Free Medical Journals
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
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of
Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life
sciences journal literature..
DOAJ: Political Science
Journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals that
pertain specifically to the field of political science.
CogPrints
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)
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
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
Main administration site at Cornell University, multiple mirrors
worldwide, manages access to research papers.
Astronomy
Preprints & Abstracts
Hosted by National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA,
linked list of sites, includes institutional preprint servers.
CERN Document
Server (CDS)
Searchable Web interface to bibliographic records, including documents in particle physics and related
areas, covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs.
E-Print
Network
The Department of Energy's E-Print Network provides access to
electronic preprints in science and technology available from
diverse sites.
Highwire Press
Highwire Press is an e-publishing company based at Stanford
University. Some issues of its journals are free.
Information 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.
NCEAS Data Repository Contains data sets about ecology.
NTRS, NASA
Technical Reports Server
Searches for aerospace related bibliographic citations and links you
to the publisher of the information. Some articles are free.
PhilSci Archive
An electronic archive for preprints of articles in the philosophy of
science.
PLoS: Public Library of Science
Seven peer-reviewed open access journals:
PLoS Biology,
PLoS
Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology,
PLoS Genetics,
PLoS Pathogens,
PLoS ONE, and
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Electronic Journals and Newsletters
Collection of publications dealing at least to some extent with
sociology. Some free full text journals mixed in with abstract
listings and subscription journals.
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