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To publish OA

Useful tools to learn about the main platforms to publish, share scientific information, consult the policies of major publishers regarding the self-archiving of research products

• DOAJ– Directory of Open Access Journals, the historical on line repertoire of high quality open access and peer reviewed journals can also be used to have information to publish with the guarantee of reliability
• DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books, the online repertoire of academic texts, and individual chapters, open access and peer reviewed, can also be used to have information to publish with the guarantee of reliability
• EOSC – European Open Science Cloud, the European cloud for sharing scientific information in the EU
• EPOCA, database resulting from the census coordinated by the University of Turin to understand the policies of some Italian and international scientific publishers regarding the self-archiving of research products
• OASPA, the open access publishers' website
• OAD, directory dedicated to the world of open access with information of various kinds including journals and publishers
• ROARMAP, website where you can find out the list of research centers and foundations that require researchers to provide peer-reviewed articles through archiving in open access institutional repositories
• JISC Open Policy Finder, the database through which it is possible to know the policies of the main international scientific publishers regarding the self-archiving of research products. The website lists the institutions, research organisations and funding bodies that have implemented OA project funding policies

 

To track OA resources

The main international bibliographic indexes that allow you to find OA research products

• BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, the Bielefeld University Library's multidisciplinary search engine for open access academic and scientific resources
• CORE, it aggregates research papers from data providers worldwide, including institutional repositories, subject repositories, and journal publishers
• Dissemin, multidisciplinary archive of open access articles with the specification (taken from Sherpa Romeo) of the editorial policies of the journals that host them
• Google Patent Search, the version of Google that allows you to search through millions of patents filed with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) published in the last 200 years
• FOSTER, portal born from a project funded by the European Union whose main objective is to promote knowledge of open access through training activities aimed at researchers, students, librarians, providing the tools and concrete practices to adopt open science as a working methodology. The portal hosts an e-learning platform that collects quality information and teaching resources (seminars, lectures, webinars …) funded by the project itself
• NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertationes, the search engine that allows access to over a million theses and dissertations in full-text electronic format discussed and published online at all universities around the world
• OAIster, OCLC's search engine that gives access to thousands of digital resources of academic-scientific interest
• Open Access Button, a free browser extension that searches for an article, even for a fee, on thousands of sites containing millions of articles, making the open access version accessible to the user, free of charge and legally. More information about the OA Button???
• OpenAire – Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe, initiative involving several European countries with the aim of supporting the implementation of the Pilot Project on Open Access formalised by the European Union in 2008
• OpenDOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories, the online repertoire of open access university research archives
• Open Research Europe, the open access platform which the European Commission makes available to authors for the publication of the results of scientific research projects financed by Community programmes
• SHARE, higher education initiative whose mission is to maximize the impact of research by creating a comprehensive inventory of widely discoverable, accessible, and reusable research. To accomplish this mission SHARE is creating an openly available dataset on research activities in their lifecycle
• Unpaywall, free web browser extension that searches for documents in more than 5,300 repositories worldwide, including preprint servers and institutional databases, scanning the Internet for free-to-read versions of articles even for a fee. More information on Unpaywall
• Zenodo, the open access multidisciplinary archive for publications and data of all researchers in the world, guaranteed by CERN in Geneva