Where to locate academic and scientific content in Open Access
Open access repositories and journals
Content integration portal. It provides access to the full text of journal articles, chapters of collective books, doctoral theses, books, working papers, etc.
Access is provided in two ways:
- Direct links to the full text of those hosted on other servers.
- By hosting the full-text documents on the Dialnet server.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Directory of scholarly and scientific journals administered by Lund University Libraries.
The journals included meet high quality standards: peer review or editorial quality control.
Aims to increase visibility and facilitate usage.
RECyT (Spanish Science and Technology Repository)
Project of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT).
A set of services for the Spanish scientific community that aims to support the professionalisation and internationalisation of Spanish scientific publications.
- Public part (Newspaper Library) where users can search for scientific information of interest to them.
- Private part (Journal Edition) offers a comprehensive review and editing tool for scientific articles and publications.
Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR)
Produced by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Germany).
Open access repository containing preprints and postprints in the Social Sciences. Project coordinated by an Editorial Group with the help of an advisory board composed of members of scientific societies. The quality of contributions is assured.
Collectors
The result of the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the University Libraries Network (REBIUN). A platform that brings together all the national scientific repositories.
Its objectives include: To provide greater visibility and application, both nationally and internationally, of the results of research carried out in Spain.
This is the new platform in which the DRIVER project is integrated. It is a large-scale initiative in which 50 partners from all EU countries participate, and which aims to promote open research and the reuse of scientific publications resulting from research financed with European funds.
It is active in the fields of health, energy, environment, ICT infrastructures for research, social, human and societal sciences.
Largest collector of digital objects belongs to the Univ. of Michigan, accessible from WorldCat.
Books
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)
Directory of books from academic and scientific publishers.
Produced by the OAPEN Foundation, an organisation dedicated to promoting open access.
Evaluation
Scholarly Open Access: Critical analysis
Blog by Jeffery Beall, librarian at the University of Colorado. It compiles a list of OA journals with malpractice and fraudulent publishers.
Directories
RIS: Spanish Institutional Repositories of Open Access
Prepared by the Open Access to Science Research Group.
ROAR (Register of Open Access Repositories)
Directory created by the University of Southampton. Aims to index and locate international institutional repositories.
OpenDOAR (The Directory of Open Access Repository)
Access service to repositories worldwide, created by the University of Nottingham. Allows searching by repository, by country.