Open access
| ** Library Guide to Open Access Publishing |
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| ArXiv |
Well-established open-access pre-print server hosting unpublished e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| bioArXiv |
A free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| CORE - (U.K.) |
Search for open access scholarly articles from institutions across the world. CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| CORE: Open Access for the Humanities |
Articles, book chapters and other documents authored by humanities researchers and posted on Humanities Commons, a non-profit, academic social networking site. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| Digital Commons Network |
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) |
A curated, independent, searchable directory of open access peer-reviewed journals. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
Open access encyclopedia providing detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.
Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| MedRxiv |
A free, preprint server for medical research. Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been peer-reviewed. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess level: Freely available to the public |
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| PsyArXiv |
A fairly new searchable preprint server for hosting unpublished academic papers in psychology.
Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Well known open access publisher, founded as a non-profit in 2001 to transform research communication by publishing journals with rigorous reporting and peer review. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| PubMed Central |
PubMed Central® (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). Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| SocArXiv |
SocArXiv is a free and publicly accessible platform for social scientists to upload working papers, pre-prints, published papers, data, and code. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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| SSRN |
Very large, well established repository of social science (and other) academic papers. It was founded in 1994 as an open repository, but bought in 2017 by a for-profit publisher, Elsevier. The vast majority of the papers hosted on the site are free to download. Access level: Freely available to the public |
