Research Guides: Open Access: Health Sciences Resources: OA Resources

UC Resources

UCL Digital Collections
Public Access Mandates
Guide created by the UC Health Sciences Library on the NIH Public Access Policy and Public Access Mandates.

OA Science Resources

arXiv
Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is an international, peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes research articles on all aspects of organic chemistry. The content is freely accessible online and is publicly archived. Authors can publish scientific articles free of charge as the BJOC is completely funded by the Beilstein-Institut, an independent non-profit foundation. Editor-in-chief of the BJOC is Peter H. Seeberger, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.

BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an STM publisher of 257 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine...All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central levies an article-processing charge to cover the cost of the publication process. Authors publishing with BioMed Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. BioMed Central is owned by Springer Science+ Business Media, and also hosts the SpringerOpen platform.

BMC Cell Biology
A peer-reviewed Cell Biology journal also indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, CABI, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
Chemistry Central
Chemistry Central is an open access chemistry publisher, operated by BioMed Central and owned by Springer Science+Business Media...Chemistry Central levies an article-processing charge to cover the cost of the publication process and authors publishing with Chemistry Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited.
DOAJ Sciences
Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
Nucleic Acids Research
Long after publication of its first volume in 1974 and establishing itself as a top-tier journal in biochemistry/molecular biology, Nucleic Acids Research began its Open Access initiative in 2005. Content from 1996 on is freely available on the Oxford University Press website; earlier content can be found in PubMed Central.
Project Euclid
Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important components of the project. Project Euclid was developed and deployed by the Cornell University Library and is jointly managed by Cornell and the Duke University Press.
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a nonprofit publisher, membership, and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
PubMedCentral (PMC)
PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

NIH grant recipients are required to deposit their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts in the PubMedCentral archive upon acceptance for publication, with this content to be made publicly accessible within 12 months of publication.

Science.gov
An interagency portal that makes available selected authoritative scientific web sites and databases of technical reports¸ journal articles¸ conference proceedings¸ and other published materials from science agencies throughout the federal government. The web pages and the databases can be searched individually or simulatenously from the search page. Includes links to full text.

SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Commonly called the Astrophysics Data System, this is a digital portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. All abstracts and articles in the ADS are copyrighted by the publisher, and their use is free for personal use only. It is comprised of three bibliographic databases containing more than 9.1 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints.
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics)
SCOAP3, a consortium made up of High-Energy Physics (HEP) funding agencies, HEP laboratories, and leading national and international libraries and library consortia, is working with publishers to develop a new business model supporting conversion of five traditionally-published core HEP journals into Open Access titles.The SCOAP3 model is built on redirecting funds currently used to pay for subscriptions to participating journals to support their converstion to Open Access, as well as to cover APCs in existing Open Access journals.

Legislative Resources

Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)
HOAP was launched in the fall of 2011 to foster OA within Harvard, foster OA beyond Harvard, undertake research and policy analysis on OA, and provide OA to timely and accurate information about OA itself.

Provides good notes on FASTR Act, FRPAA, PAPS, RWA.
Draft NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy Request for Public Comments
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking public comments on the draft Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy that promotes sharing, for research purposes, of large-scale human and nonhuman genomic1data generated from NIH-supported and NIH-conducted research.

A Notice by the National Institutes of Health on 09/20/2013. To ensure that your comments will be considered, please submit your response to this Request for Comments no later than 60 days after publication of this notice.

Interdisciplinary

Beall's List
This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. We recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards.
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
Hathi Trust
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than 80 partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.
OA & Your Discipline
Check out this page from Boston College University Libraries on OA. It provides links with resources for a variety of disciplines including the humanities, social sciences, & the sciences.
OAIster
One of the original open access databases with over 23 million records. Originally developed at the University of Michigan with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation it gathered Open Archives Initiative compliant resources (still a standard of Open Access) but is now maintained by OCLC and delivered on the worldcat platform.
Open Access by Peter Suber
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 800 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 1,886,034 theses and dissertations.
OpenDepot.org
The purpose of OpenDepot.org is to ensure that all academics worldwide can share in the benefits of making their research output Open Access. For those whose universities and organisations have an online repository, OpenDepot.org makes them easy to find. For those without a local repository, including unaffilitiated researchers, the OpenDepot is a place of deposit, available for others to harvest.
OpenDOAR - Search
This service, based on the Google Custom Search engine, lets you search the contents of the repositories listed in OpenDOAR for freely available academic research information. This quality assured approach minimises (but does not eliminate!) spurious or junk results, and leads more directly to useful and relevant information. Full texts are available for most results.
Repository 66
This site is a mashup of data from ROAR and OpenDOAR overlayed onto Google maps. You can read about the development of the maps on the repository map mashup blog.
ROAR Content Search
Though ROAR is primarily a directory, they do offer a trial search which uses a Google Custom Search to search the contents of all the repositories in their directory.
Zenodo
ZENODO is a repository service that enables researchers, scientists, projects and institutions to share and showcase multidisciplinary research results (data and publications) that are not part of existing institutional or subject-based repositories.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following guides for providing excellent information and links!

http://research.library.gsu.edu/openaccess
http://libguides.bc.edu/openaccess
http://brandeis.libguides.com/openaccess
http://uark.libguides.com/openaccess