There are many helpful resources surrounding open access. Here are a few you may be interested in:
- Experimental Publishing Compendium – compendium with examples of experimental books, and publishing practices with a focus on free and open-source software, platforms, and digital publishing tools
- OAD (Open Access Directory) wiki site – compendium of factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large
- OASIS – Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook. Click the "Researchers" link in the left menu bar
- SPARC– Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) works to enable open sharing of research outputs and educational material
- PLoS – Public Library of Science (PLoS) is an open access scientific publisher
- Open Access – a Northwestern University Libraries site
- Open Access Health Information - a guide by Galter Library on health resources that are freely available
- Sherpa Services- consolidates Romeo, Juliet, Fact, and OpenDOAR [beta: 1/2024]
- SpringerNature Funding for Open Access Articles - compiled a list of more than 250 research funders and institutions worldwide that fund publication costs
Open Education Resources / Open Textbooks
- FOAMed- Free Open Access Meducation (medical education). Site information: Globally accessible crowd-sourced educational adjunct providing inline (contextual) and offline (asynchronous) content to augment traditional educational principles- resources.
- Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)- developed by George Mason University to search across 21 different sources of open educational materials
- MERLOT- digital learning materials, including OER, developed or identified by an informal consortium
- OAPEN OA Books Toolkit- designed to help authors better understand OA for books and to provide guidance on the publishing process.
- OASIS- search tool designed by SUNY-Geneso to make discovery of open content easier
- The OER Starter Kit / Abbie Elder- provides instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER)
- Open Education Resources- Northwestern University's introductory OER site, includes information on OER work / development grant funding at Northwestern University (focus: undergraduate education)
- Open-i - National Library of Medicine's Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
- OPEN Illinois Initiative - CARLI (Illinois library consortium) site to facilitate members’ use and support of Open Educational Resources (OER), especially training, advocacy, and coordination of cooperative effort
Open Science / Open Scholarship