Open Access Publishing

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

• Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)- developed by George Mason University to search across 21 different sources of open educational materials
• 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- a website of Northwestern University Libraries (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

• A Practical Guide for Reproducible Papers / Aurora Blucher and Ted Laderas
• Data Curation Primers - Data Curation Network
• Data Organization and Documentation - a guide by Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
• GREI- Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative
• Self-Evaluation Tool for Culture of Open Scholarship Services / Open Science Coordination in Finland