Open Access: What is Open Access?

For faculty: An animated video explaining open-access publishing.

For students: A brief animated video describing the economics of scholarly publishing. Part of Pfau Library's Critical Information Literacy Lab.

Explains the spectrum of open access.

From The Guardian's Higher Ed blog, by Peter Suber, Director, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication.

One-page intro from noted OA advocate Peter Suber.

A very brief overview from the Cabells blog.

Quick info about open access to federally funded research.

A project of the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC advocates for Open Access in scholarly publishing, Open Education opportunities, and Open Data sources.

Advocating for free access to knowledge content.

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. Find out if your publisher supports posting in institutional repositories!

Directory of Open Access Repositories. Which schools and other institutions sponsor their own repositories?

Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. Searchable directory of policies requiring researchers to make their research openly available.