Open access/Catalogs

An incomplete list of Open Access projects. The increasing number of high quality journals and sites adhering to the principle of open access can (currently) not be reflected by this page. See also the External Links subpage for further pointers.

Subject or discipline repositories

These collections of articles and other information on a particular subject or academic discipline.

• arXiv: Physics/Mathematics OA Archive (central)
• CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences OA Archive (central)
• Citebase: Citation-linked browser (harvested from distributed websites)
• Citeseer: Computer Science (harvested from distributed websites)
• JournalReview: An open access archive for reviews and discussion of medical and scientific literature
• OpenMED@NIC: An open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences
• PubMed Central: the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
• Research Papers in Economics: a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 45 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components.

Open access publishers

• Molecular Diversity Preservation International
• Public Library of Science
• Hindawi, [1] (42+ full open access STM journals), e.g.,
  • Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (ISSN 1687-5265)
• BioMed Central
• Scholarly Exchange
• Springer (Offers open access as an option in all its 1200+ journals)
• Copernicus open-access journals

Open access encyclopedias

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: an academic encyclopedia, produced by philosophy scholars
• Wikipedia: not necessarily written by academic authors
• Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science: "a natural expansion of the work carried out preparing the Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede, published in Italian in 2002 (Rome: Urbaniana University Press - Città Nuova, 2002), partly translated into English and offered here on-line."

Directories and lists

• Lists of open access journals
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • Die Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (English version) (EZB)
  • LivRe
  • Open J-Gate
  • Jan Szczepanski's lists of open access journals
  • Yahoo's Free Full Text
  • List of Open Access Journals in the Field of Education
  • List of open access journals with Wikipedia entries

• Lists of open access archives and repositories (limited to those that are OAI-compliant)
  • The University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registry
  • Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
  • OAIster list
  • Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
  • Peter Suber's list of the better lists

• Open Access Directory
• Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)
• ROMEO/Eprints Registry of Journal Self-Archiving Policies
• SHERPA/RoMEO Registry of Publisher Self-Archiving Policies
• Peter Suber's timeline of the OA movement
• Peter Suber's list of what you can do to promote open access

Open access research tools

• impact ranking search engine
• download/citation correlator

Tracking open access developments

• Open Access News, a weblog by Peter Suber
• SPARC Open Access Newsletter, news and analysis by Peter Suber
• American Scientist Open Access Forum, covering open access developments since 1998

Other open access resources

• Open Access to Scientific Literature - OASE
• PLEIADI: Portal for the Italian Electronic Literature in Open and Institutional Archives