50 Open Access Resources for Librarians – Part 2

This is the second half of a two-part post about Open Access resources that I share with my students as a part of my Intro to Reference course. Be sure and check out Part 1 here.

    Open Access Journals

  1. Journal of Information Literacy
  2. Journal of the Medical Library Association
  3. Library Philosophy and Practice
  4. Library Student Journal
  5. School Library Media Research
  6. Urban Library Journal
  7. Find many more through DOAJ

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    Institutional Repositories

  8. Minds@UW
  9. MIT’s DSpace
  10. Scholarly Commons@Penn
  11. e-Prints-Soton
  12. The New Zealand Digital Library
  13. Ohio State University’s Knowledge Bank
  14. Find many more through OpenDOAR

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    Disciplinary Repositories

  15. E-LIS: the Open Archive for Library and Information Studies
  16. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
  17. arXiv : e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
  18. PubMedCentral: Biomedical and life sciences journal literature
  19. Minority Health Archive at University of Pittsburgh
  20. PhilSci Archive at University of Pittsburgh
  21. DList (Digital Library of Information Science and Technology)
  22. Find many more through OpenDOAR

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    Business Side of OA

  23. BOAI Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal
  24. Open Society Institute Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access
  25. Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do To Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution

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2 Responses to “50 Open Access Resources for Librarians – Part 2”

  1. cj Says:
    December 13th, 2011 at 8:00 am

    http://freeetextbooksonline.com/ this is also a pretty good resource for free textbooks, and it seems to be growing.

  2. Lorie K Says:
    December 31st, 2011 at 9:12 am

    Evidence Based Library & Information Practice (open access journal): http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP

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