A Guide for Faculty and Students
©Vinod Scaria. [Can be reproduced with attributions]
The address of this page is
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dream/findingoapubs.html
or use the shorter.....http://tinyurl.com/2psmat
DOAJ: Directory of Open
Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
There are now 2625 journals in the directory. Currently 792 journals
are searchable at article level.
As of today 130651 articles are included in the DOAJ service. Search
articles here
BioMed
Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/home/
Publisher of more than 170 peer-reviewed open access journals
Thanks to VCU Libraries membership, VCU faculty get a discount
to author fees for publishing their work here.
ArXiv.org
http://arxiv.org/
Open access to 415,426 e-prints in Physics,
Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology
OAISTER
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources.
OAIster currently provides access to 11,307,418 records from 766 contributors.
Public Library of Science
(PLOS )
http://www.plos.org/
Open J-Gate
http://www.openjgate.com
Indexes articles from 3600+ academic, research and industry journals
and more than 2000 of them are peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
Scirus : for
Scientific Information (a specialized web search engine)
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
Scirus currently covers over 300 million science-related Web pages
In addition to Web pages, Scirus indexes the following special sources
(the numbers are approximate):
• 400,000 e-prints from ArXiv.org
• 18,500 full-text articles from BioMed Central
• 10,500 documents from Caltech Coda
• 2,700 e-prints from Cogprints
• 68,000 full-text articles from Crystallography Journals Online
• 1,800 documents from CURATOR
• 515,000 documents from Digital Archives
• 14,000 documents from DiVa
• 36,500 full-text articles from Project Euclid
• 2,300 documents from HKUST Institutional Repository
• 15,000 documents - of which 12,000 full-text documents - from HKUTO
• 6,500 full-text documents available from IISc
• 228,000 full-text articles from Institute of Physics Publishing
• 18 million patent data from LexisNexis
• 16.4 million Medline citations via PubMed
• 54,500 documents from MIT OpenCourseWare
• 12,000 technical reports from NASA
• 233,500 full-text theses and dissertations via NDLTD
• 6,000 documents from Organic Eprints
• 650 documents from PsyDok
• 575,000 articles from PubMed Central
• 190,000 documents from RePEc
• 6.7 million full-text articles from ScienceDirect
• 383,000 full-text journal articles from Scitation
• 9,100 articles from SIAM
• 9,000 documents from University of Toronto T-Space
• 8,500 full-text documents from WaY
Note: This does also include subscription-based journals also.
12,143
total items by VCU-affiliated authors!
(as of April 10, 2007)
LivRE
http://livre.cnen.gov.br/Inicial.asp
Portal to free access journals on the Internet - 2961 titles
Tips
for Authors Publishing in Open Access Journals
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dream/openaccesstips.html
Open
Access Medical Journals: Will The Publishers Perish?
http://www.eric.vcu.edu/inm/MGR01_28_04.pdf
2004 Grand Rounds presentation by Dr. Michael Edmond
VCU/MCV Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
(an excellent overview, including specific (2004) VCU information)
What
Open Access Research Can Do For Wikipedia
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/willinsky/index.html
First Monday is an open access peer-reviewed journal
SPARC: The Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
Open
Access Overview (by Peter Suber)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Open
Access News (daily blog)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
ROMEO:
Publisher Copyright Policies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Look up your prospective publishing journal and see what they allow
OpenDOAR: Directory
of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/
Creative Commons(an
alternative to traditional copyright)
http://creativecommons.org/
Open Journal Systems:
Public Knowledge Project
http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
Publish your own Open Access Journal
"OJS is open source software made freely available to journals worldwide
for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option
for more
journals, as open access can increase a journal's readership as
well as its
contribution to the public good on a global scale"
VCU
Scholarly Communication Issues
http://www.library.vcu.edu/scholarcomm/
(from VCU Libraries)