Open-Research

=Open Research= In these days of budget cuts, free, open access to academic research is more important than ever. [|Cable Green] put up a link to a video that I want to share here as well along with some resources and tips for accessing open research.

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Open Research Organizations
[|Right to Research] [|SPARC]

Open Research Journals, Repostories, and Search Tools

 * **Journals**
 * The [|Directory of Open Access Journals] lists more than 2,800 journals that provide free access to the full text of their articles. You can search for a specific journal or browse by subject area.
 * [|The SPARC Publisher Partner Program] features non-profit organizations that are pursuing innovative business models to provide affordable, if not open access, to peer-reviewed research.
 * **Subject repositories:** These archives provide open access to articles by scholars in particular fields. Some only include articles with free, full-text access, while others also include articles with only an abstract. They may also include theses, conference presentations, working papers, or other types of scholarly content. This is a sample list.
 * openDOAR: an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. [|http://www.opendoar.org/]
 * [|arXiv]: Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.[|http://arxiv.org/]
 * [|CogPrints]: Cognitive sciences, especially psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics.[|http://cogprints.org/]
 * [|ERIC] (Education Resources Information Center): Education. [|http://www.eric.ed.gov/]
 * [|PubMed] Central: Biomedical and life sciences. [|http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/]
 * [|SSRN] (Social Science Research Network): Social sciences, especially law, political science, economics, and business. [|http://www.ssrn.com/]
 * **Search tools**
 * OAIster is a tool to search archives compliant with the Open Archives Initiative metadata standard. This can include open-access journals, institutional and subject repositories, as well as other digital archives, which may include educational or historical content in addition to scholarly journal articles. [|http://www.oaister.org/]
 * The Directory of Open Access Journals also includes a tool to search the content of some journals listed. [|http://www.doaj.org/]