Open Access: Health Sciences Resources

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

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.

A peer-reviewed Cell Biology journal also indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, CABI, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.

BMC Chemistry, formerly known as Chemistry Central Journal, is an open access, peer reviewed journal publishing research in all areas of pure and applied chemistry.

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.

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'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) 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.

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 PubMed Central archive upon acceptance for publication, with this content to be made publicly accessible within 12 months of publication.

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, 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.

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.

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.

An archived version of the Beall’s list – a list of potential predatory publishers created by a librarian Jeffrey Beall.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't).

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.

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.

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 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.