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What is Open Access ?

Open access (OA) refers to allowing unrestricted online access to scholarly information including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, graduate theses, data, and other. more

AMIR Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources
Open access scholarship on the Middle East and Islamic worlds
Budapest Open Access Initiative
CHORUS (the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States)
Expanding Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementing the OSTP Memo
How Open is It: Open Access Spectrum
OpenNet Initiative ONI
Expose and analyze Internet censorship and surveillance practices
OSTP Memo
Overview of Open Access in the Arab States
UNESCO Global Open Access Portal

Digital Commons Network

Digital Commons Network
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. This dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Search Engines

OpenGrey

System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe

for Scientific Information Only

Search Open DOAR

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OAIster
Union catalog of open access materials.
CORE: UK Open-Access Repositories
The COnnecting REpositories tool (CORE) enables people to search the full text of items held in all approved open-access repositories in the UK.
PubGet
For STEM resources, as it really is quite a powerful biomedical search engine (it also indexes the past 10yrs of the IEEE).
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Additionally, pubget finds open access articles (which you can populate to the top) that otherwise would remain undiscoverable unless you happened to subscribe to the journal.
HAL L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire
HAL is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields.
You're a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do?
Open Access Button
Free, legal research articles and data delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors.
List of Open Access Initiatives

AUB

AUB ScholarWorks
AUB ScholarWorks is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes digital material. Repositories are important tools for preserving an organization's legacy; they facilitate digital preservation and scholarly communication.

Copyright Term, Public Domain and Open Access

ARL Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
Copyright and Fair Use: Trends and Resources for 21st Century Scholars
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States 1 January 20131
Cornell Copyright Information Center
Copyright Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States
Guidelines for Media Resources in Academic Libraries (2012)
Public Domain
University of California
Research Results Are Increasingly Available For Free
A new tool to help users find free versions of scholarly articles is Unpaywall, an extension for the Chrome browser. Unpaywall finds open-access versions of articles that the user might first find on a publisher’s website, behind a paywall. Unpaywall doesn’t violate copyright: It directs the user to versions of articles that, in many cases, have been uploaded by the authors themselves. Its creators claim it has a success rate of 50 to 85 percent, depending on the subject of the article the user is looking for.

Libraries OA Agreements

Toolkit to foster Open Access agreements
Smaller independent publishers, libraries, and consortia can now more easily enter into Open Access agreements thanks to a set of new tools published by cOAlition S and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).