Open Access Resources

Interested in ensuring that your research is widely and promptly disseminated? Link to the resources listed below for more information.

On the benefits of open access:

• Open access overview by Peter Suber
• Open access: why should we have it? by Alma Swan
• The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies by Alma Swan

Open access: what do publishers allow?

• ROMEO database: publisher copyright policies

On author rights

• http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/

Research funders' support of open access

• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

Posting your papers in your University's open access repository

• The 'Green' road to open access, by Stevan Harnad
• Directory of open access repositories

Discipline-specific repositories

• arXiv
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
• UK PubMed Central

Open access publishing

• Publishers with paid options for open access
• Directory of open access journals