Open Access Publishing
Open Access Journals
Open access journals are made freely available to the public over the Internet. The authors retain control of the integrity of their work, and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. In the "gold" model, the author or his/her institution may have to pay a fee, but the publisher makes the material free to users. In the "green" model, the author self-archives his/her refereed article in a suitable repository that provides interoperability and archiving.
Directories of open access journals include:
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals, Lund University Libraries
http://www.doaj.org/ - Electronic Journals Library, University of Regensburg
http://rzblx1.uni- regensburg.de/ezeit/about.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=1?=en
Of the 25,231 titles listed covering all subjects, 10,586 are open access. Browsing by subject is possible. - Free Full Text
http://www.freefulltext.com/
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Open Archives / Institutional Repositories
An institutional repository is a digital archive of the work of an institution's faculty, staff, and students. All or part of the content is made available freely to the public. One Canadian example is Erudit (http://www.erudit.org/index.html).
Two of a number of online lists of institutional repositories are:
- Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
http://archives.eprints.org/ - OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories, University of Nottingham and Lund University
http://www.opendoar.org/doar?func=loadTempl&templ=home
