LibGuides: Open Access Research: OA Week 2014

Open Access Week

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

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Learn About Open Access

A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access by Peter Suber - Peter Suber, is Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication Office at Harvard, provides background information on the open access movement.
Open access: six myths to put to rest by Peter Suber

Budapest Open Access Initiative - An international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet.
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) - SPARC provides educational resources on open access and other topics in scholarly communication of interest to authors, editors, and publishers.

Open Access Faculty Panel Discussion

Open Access Journals

The resources below are portals to open access, scholarly journals.

Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ aims to be a comprehensive portal for quality, scholarly open access journals.
Directory of Open Access Scholarly Journals in Education
The Education Research Global Observatory maintains a complete and current directory of open access peer-reviewed journals in education.
BioMed Central - is a United Kingdom-based, for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access journal publication. BioMed Central publishes 220 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals in STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) disciplines. BioMed Central is owned by Springer Science+ Business Media.
Public Library of Science (PLoS) is an inclusive, nonprofit, peer-reviewed, open-access resource from the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE, publishes peer-reviewed journals in science and medecine. One PLoS publication, PLoS One, has an efficient, innovative peer-review process that results in the publication of all technically sound papers.