A Guide To...Open Access: Web Links

Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

A portal showcasing outstanding published works authored by undergraduate students. You’ll find only publications published by universities and colleges here.
Publications include award-winning research, conferences, posters and presentations, fieldwork and class projects, honors theses and capstone projects, creative works, and research papers. An infographic on the homepage shows how content breaks down by subject area and publication type.

Brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, it includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.

This is an introduction to open access (OA) for those who are new to the concept.

Open Access: what is it and why should we have it?

SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC believes that faster and wider sharing of the outputs of the scholarly research process increases the impact of research, fuels the advancement of knowledge, and increases the return on research investments. SPARC focuses on taking action in collaboration with stakeholders – including authors, publishers, and libraries – to build on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship.