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Organizations Involved in OA

Alliance for Taxpayer Access Creative Commons Internet Archive Open Access Working Group Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Open Access Working Group Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

Current Standards to facilitate OA research publication

COUNTER Code of Practice for Articles Creative Commons (Licenses) CrossRef (DOI) Fund Ref IRUS-UK ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) Connecting Research and Researchers (ORCID) RCUK (Research Council UK) Policy on Open Access SHERPA/FACT (Funders & Authors Compliance Tool) SHERPA-Juliet SHERPA-RoMEO UCL Discovery: Unlocking UCL research UCL Publications Policy 2012 Welcome Trust Open Access Policy

More Sources on Open Access Publishing

Open Access Directory Open Access Webligraphy Open Access News (OAN) Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook Open-Access.net Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook Scholarly Open Access

E-Serials (Newsletters) on Open Access

Global Open Access Portal Open access Now SPARC Open Access Newsletter Open Access Journals and Open Educational Resources What Is Open Access? An Explanatory Video

Open Access Publishing Directories

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Free Medical Journals HighWire Press: Free Online Full-text Articles Institutional Archives Registry Open DOAR ROAR ROARMAP

Open Access Search Engines

BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine CiteSeerX. Core: Connecting Repositories Google Scholar Microsoft Academic Search. OAIster (WorldCat)

Indian Open Access Journals

Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) CSIR-NISCAIR Journals Indian Academy of Science Indian Society for Education and Environment Medknow Journals Sankhya: the Indian Journal of Statistics

Open Access Journal Publisher

Biomed Central Chemistry Central Journal PLoS PubMed Central Springer Open Elsevier Open access journals OMICS Open access journals SAGE Open access

Open Access e- Journals Hosting

HighWire Free Online Full-text Articles Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard

Open Access E-books

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books Open Library InTech open Books Project Gutenberg Hathi Trust Digital Library

Open Access Patent sources

Google Patents Esp@cenet European Patent Office (EPO) Indian Patent Office Indian Patent design and trademark US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)

Open Access ETD Sources

Australian University Theses & Dissertations DiVA portal DART-Europe E-Theses Portal NDTLD KrishiPrabha e-Theses, India Open Access Theses and Dissertations: OATD Open Directory Project Free Dissertations OpenThesis.org PQDT OPEN: ProQuest Digital Theses ShodhGanga, India Thesis Abstracts and Dissertation Abstract Theses Canada (Library and Archives Canada)

E-print Archive

ArXiv.org Chemical Sciences Repository Cog prints CERN Document Server Eprint Network E-Print Network HAL-SHS Archive of scientific literature HAL open archive Scholarly documents Institut Nicod Eprints Archive MédiHal open archive of scientific images Organic eprints PhilSci-Archive RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Solar Physics E-Print Archive Carnegie Mellon Harvard OpenCourseWare Johns Hopkins Opencourseware MIT Open Courseware (OCW) Notre Dame NPTEL Oxford Mathematics OpenCourseWare Open.Michigan Open Yale Courses Tufts University

Consortium of Opencourseware (OCW)

CORE OpenCourseWare Consortium GUIDE - Global Universities in Distance Education ISSUU: OpenCourseWare Consortium Japan Opencourseware Consortium (Jocw) OCW Consortium Europe Ocw Universia Consortium Open CourseWare Consortium on Vimeo Taiwan Opencourseware Consortium Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi

Open Online Learning Tools

Codecademy Duolingo Khan Academy Purdue OWL Udemy Wikiversity

Virtual Libraries/Subject Gateways

Internet Public Library Vifamath: the Virtual Library of Mathematics WWW Virtual Library WorldWideScience.org

Open Access Video Lectures

Academic Earth MIT TechTV Free Science Videos and Lectures Engineering Tube Free Lecture videos Video Lecture

Academic Research Network

Academia.edu Mendeley MyScienceWork SSRN Research gate VIVO academic network

Scholarly Author Identifiers

International Standard Name Identifier ORCID ResearcherID Scopus Author ID Google Scholar Profile ID ArXiv Author IDs MathSciNet: MR Author ID PubMed Central ID RePEc Author Service AuthorClaim