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What is open access?
What is open access?
Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
OA literature can be:
books;
scholarly articles;
data
dissertations;
video and audio materials (for example, podcasts);
blogs and personal websites.
For authors/researchers OA allows to reach a wider audience, as it removes access restrictions; encourages to microspecialise and advances academic freedom.
For readers OA gives access to a wider range of materials. For example, there is at least one prominent academic journal in every study field that is fully open access!
Partner university open access sites
Partner university open access sites
London Metropolitan university:
Understanding OA - useful for those interested in publishing on OA;
LMET repository - published works by LMET staff.
Solent University - links to general resources, as well as subject-specific resources.
Ulster University - useful for those interested in publishing on OA.
Ebooks
Ebooks
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - ebook repository.
Online Library of Open Access books (AOPEN) - ebook repository.
Open Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) - includes academic journal articles and books. Click on Advanced Search; filter your search by content type, subject, country and region.
Academic research
Academic research
Interdisciplinary repositories and collections
Interdisciplinary repositories and collections
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - search for journals and articles on your subject.
Electronic Journals Library - service providing full-text ejournals; choose your subject.
Connecting Repositories (CORE) - aggregation of content from open access repositories and journals.
CORE - collection of open access research papers.
Science.gov - search engine by the USA federal government.
Economics, business and finance
Economics, business and finance
EconBiz - service of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW) Leibniz Information Centre for Economics containing journals, working papers and conferences in Business and Economics. Select Open Access only.
Annual Reviews - journals on economics, financial economics, resource economics, organisational behaviour and statistics.
Computer science
Computer science
ArXiv - archive of journal articles.
SiteSeerX - a free scientific literature digital library of over 300,000 computer science articles on the web. Users can search for citations or documents that are web based.
OSTI - Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) - Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia.
Data and statistics
Data and statistics
Accounting and finance open access data sources (University of Bristol)
Accounting and finance open access academic sources (University of Bristol)
City Business Library (CBL) - see the CBL recommended websites.
World Bank Open Data - free access to global development data.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - economic and financial data and statistics; includes World Economic Outlook (WEO) databases.
Business, economic and financial information - search engines, UK, EU and international data, datasets and databases (company, country and market data, statistics, business case studies, business and consumer surveys, academic journal articles on business).
Food and Agriculture Organization corporate statistical database (FAOSTAT) - free access to food and agriculture data.
British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) - economic data (surveys, reviews and forecasts).
EU Open Data Portal (EU ODP) - open data published by EU institutions and bodies; click on the Data tab; search datasets by subject, group and publisher.
Find open data - data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies; select your topic; filter by publisher and format.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - The World Factbook provides country profiles and comparisons.
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) - economic data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (publications, working papers, time series); contains the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) IDEAS database of economic research.
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) - freely available European standards.
Office National Statistics (ONS) - this nationally-recognised body specialises in collecting, analysing and disseminating statistics about the UK's economy, society and population.
Other links
Other links
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) - contains useful resources, but mostly useful for news and updates.
Experimental publishing compendium - the website functions as a guide for those interested in publishing, especially disrupting traditional publishing practices. Contains: tools, guides, books and other media.
Copim - community based open source publishing.
Opening the future - OA funding scheme, using a unique funding model through library subscriptions.
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