LibGuides: E-Reference: Scholarly Communication

Why and How Open Access Publishing?

Open Access (OA) is free online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.

Research made available via open access is becoming increasingly cited and many open-access journals are now peer reviewed.

Two models:

Self-Archiving in:

Institutional repositories, e.g.Tufts Digital Repository TDL
Subject or discipline–specific repositories, e.g.
- arXiv.org (Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics);
- RePEc (Economics)

Publishing in an open access journal:

OA may lead to:

•Increased visibility, exposure, usage & impact of research.
•Readership expanded beyond subscribers to journals in which the research is published.
•Research impact has been typically measured by tools such as ISI Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. Tools like Google Scholar measure impact of a wider range of papers.

Examples of OA publishing initiatives

BioMed Central This link opens in a new window Provides free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research publications. These publications include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. BioMed Central offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology. All journals are accessible from volume one, issue one. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: All from v.1

A field guide to misunderstandings about open access
Creative Commons
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
How Open is It? Open Access Spectrum
Resources for Authors
SHERPA/JULIET
JULIET provides summaries of funding agencies’ grant conditions on self-archiving on research publications and data.
SHERPA/RoMEO
Information on publisher's copyright policies.
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Use RoMEO to find out if your publishers’ copyright
rules allow you to deposit in your institutional repository

Dead Drops
"Un-cloud your files in cement! 'Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space."
LiquidPub
A slide show on LiquidPub.
Microsoft Academic Search
Co-author Graph, Co-author Path, Domain Trend
Nature Biotechnology
An article posted in Nature Biotechnology entitled “In silico research in the era of cloud computing”.
Research Blogging
ScienceBlogs