Research support

Benefits of Open Access for you and society

• more exposure for your work
• practitioners can apply your findings
• higher citation rates
• your research can be included in policy making
• the public can see your findings
• compliant with grant rules
• taxpayers get value for money
• researchers in developing countries can see your work.

Types of Open Access

GREEN

• Timing: often deferred open access, in accordance with publisher embargo periods (normally 12 to 24 months)
• Funder/HEFCE requirements: from April 2016, Green Open Access will be required to ensure articles are returnable in a future REF
• Licensing: offers more flexibility in license options, may allow author to limit re-use of work, particularly for commercial purposes
• Cost: no additional cost to author.

GOLD

• Timing: immediate open access with articles made freely available at point of publication
• Funder/HEFCE requirements: may be required by founders, especially where publisher does not allow self-archiving 
• Licensing: often published under a license which minimises barriers to re-use and dissemination, provided the author's work is credited
• Cost: usually requires payment of article processing charge (APC). 

Teesside University supports Open access via self archiving  your accepted manuscript in TeesRep

Open Access at Teesside - in 3 steps

1. As soon as your paper is accepted please upload it to TeesRep
2. Library staff will check for publisher policy and any embargos
3. Library staff will validate your research output and it will appear on the research portal.

An increasing number of scholarly materials (books, journals, conference papers) are being made freely available online as Open Access materials. These materials have been peer reviewed, quality checked and the full text is available online.  

The following links give access to some of the key Open Access resources. The lists are by no means exhaustive but give an indication of the range of material available on open access.

How can I find Open access materials?

Unpaywall, OA button and CORE Discovery are all Chrome and Firefox extensions the find legal open access copies of individual articles from both publishers and repositories

Kopernio - a chrome extension that finds legal open access copies of individual articles from our library subscriptions and open access versions.

Funder/Publishers requirements and policies for publishing Open Access

• SHERPA /FACT - a tool to help researchers check if the journals in which they wish to publish their results comply with their funder's requirements for open access to research.
• SHERPA/JULIET - This contains detailed information about research funders' open access policies
• SHERPA/ROMEO - This contains detailed information about publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

Covid 19 research

• WHO: latest research on Covid 19
• UKRI: Coronavirus - the science explained

General Resources

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): A service that indexes and provides access to over 18,000 peer reviewed Open Access journals and the articles in them. You can search by article, journal or browse by subject.
• OpenDOAR: the Directory of Open Access Repositories: An authoritative directory of about 2500 open access repositories (research archives). You can search the directory or the contents of repositories. Contents may be research outcomes or pre-prints of journal articles and book chapters published by researchers.
• BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine: BASE provides more than 50 million documents from more than 2,900 sources. You can access the full texts of about 75% of the indexed documents.
• CORE: COnnecting REpositories: 20 million articles worldwide, including pre-publication version of journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and theses. You can limit your search to full text articles and if an article is peer reviewed this is specified.
• OAIster: Catalogue of Open Access digital resources from collections worldwide. More than 30 million records from more than 1,500 contributors with links to full text where possible. (OAIster is included in Library Plus - www.derby.ac.uk/libraryplus).
• ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources: UNESCO funded project to create a directory of Open Access publications, including journals, conferences and annuals, that have been awarded an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number). You can search for publications but not their content.
• Access to Research: Public Libraries Initiative that gives free access to over 10 million academic articles.

Books and monographs

• Access to Research: Public Libraries Initiative providing free access to over 10 million academic articles free of charge from any Derby City Council library.
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): A searchable directory of over 1600 openly accessible academic peer-reviewed books from over 50 publishers.
• OAPEN: The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Open Book Publishers: Publisher providing free access to about 40 academic books, mainly in the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Palgrave Pivot:  Palgrave Pivot is a digital-first, peer-reviewed mid-length research format, that is longer than a journal article but shorter than a monograph. They publish across the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business, including Open Access titles.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: A network listing the electronic postgraduate theses of hundreds of universities worldwide.
• Open Textbook Library: Textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of US colleges and universities to assess their quality. All are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
• Project Gutenberg: 45,000 free e-books. An American project which cannot publish any texts still in copyright. This generally means that the texts are taken from books published pre-1923. You will not find the latest titles but you will find the old classics such as Shakespeare

Subject specific collections

• arXi: Hosted by Cornell University, arXiv, which has been established for over 20 years, provides access to 928,534 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
• Chemical Sciences Article Repository: Peer reviewed articles published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Covers all areas of chemical sciences.
• Cogprints : An archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics (and areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology and any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition).
• IAMCR: International Association for Media and Communication Research: See the tab for Resources, then the Open Access Journals link, for a list and links to about 90 journals published internationally. 

• International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science

• Journal of Open Access to Law (JOAL) : Aims to promote international research on the topic of open access to law. 
• Nature Communications: Nature Communications is an open access journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the natural sciences and has an Impact Factor of 10.742
• Open AIRE: Formerly DRIVER. Contains 8 million records from EC funded scientific research many of which are full text. Aims to provide not only published outcomes but the linked source datasets.
• Open Library of Humanities : Project to provide access to peer reviewed articles in the humanities. Under construction 2014,
• Physical Review C: From 2015 all articles authored by The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will be open access.
• Physical Review D: From 2015 all articles authored by The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will be open access.
• Physical Review Letters: From 2015 all articles authored by The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will be open access.
• Public Library of Science (PLoS) : With over 100,000 articles, PLoS is the pre-eminent open access publisher for journal articles in science and medicine.
• PubMed Central (PMC): Open Access Life Science and Medical Journals. Hosted by the US National Library of Medicine
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) : Social science research, including accounting, anthropology, cognition, economics, humanities, information systems, law, management, marketing, politics, sustainability etc
• Anthropology Commons: A repository of open primary sources critical to the study of anthropology and the history of the field.
• Open Music Library: Curated by a community of music scholars, students, teachers and librarians, the Open Music Library brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books, music scores, audio, and video recordings from the world’s digital collections.
• World Bank Open Knowledge repository: The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
• Gates Open Research: A platform for rapid open access peer reviewed research publications in the field of global health, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Wellcome Open Research: A platform of health-related research funded by the Wellcome Trust. All items are peer-reviewed and open access.