Research Guides @ Fordham: Scholarly Communication: Understanding Open Access

Background on Open Access

Understanding Open Access : When, Why & How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible by Lexi Rubow, Rachael Shen, Brianna L. Schofield
Authors Alliance, 2016.
Open Access by Peter Suber
MIT Press, 2012.
Another copy is available through the Internet Archive.

Open Access Types

Green open access is content archived through digital repositories.

Gold open access is content delivered by open access journals with peer-review.

Hybrid open-access peer-reviewed publications offering a mixture of open access and paywalled content.

Journals & Open Access

SHERPA/RoMEO
A database of journal publisher copyright policies and guidelines on self-archiving.
Open Access Spectrum Evaluation Toolkit
A guide to evaluate OA journals developed by SPARC.
Think Check Submit
A checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.
Author Rights
Check the Author Rights tab of this guide for information about publishing agreements and author addenda.

Licensing & Open Access

Creative Commons
See our page on Creative Commons licensing on our Copyright Resources guide.
Open Source Licenses
Lists license options for those who create and share software.

Open Access Repositories

Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals covering all topics.
Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Thousands of academic, peer-reviewed books from hundreds of publishers. Note: Some books have partial content only.

OSF PrePrints
Repository of public research across multiple disciplines from the Open Science Framework.

OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories This link opens in a new window
Directory of academic open access repositories around the world.

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Scholarly Communication: Understanding Open Access