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Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Finding OA Content
Created by Health Science Librarians
Open Access Articles
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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PubMedPubMed is a free resource from the NIH's National Library of Medicine that includes over 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Coverage includes the fields of biomedicine and health, portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.
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OAIsterOAIster (from OCLC) is a union catalog of over 50 million records representing open access resources from collections worldwide.
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN)Social Science Research Network (owned by Elsevier) is an open access repository of abstracts and full text papers by social science researchers from across the world. NOTE: This resource also includes some works that have not been peer-reviewed.
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OpenAlexOpenAlex (created by OurResearch) is an open-source Scholarly Knowledge Graph which contains linked metadata for over 240 million scholarly works. Their user interface is in beta testing, but it allows searching and sorting by a large number of facets. NOTE: This resource also includes some works that have not been peer-reviewed.
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DimensionsDimensions (created by Digital Science) indexes over 140 million scholarly works and 150 million patents, and UNC's institutional subscription allows researchers to use sophisticated features for search and bibliometric analysis.
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Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)BASE is a search engine, operated by the Bielefeld University Library, which indexes over 340 million documents, including peer-reviewed journal articles, preprints, and grey literature.
Open Access Books
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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)The DOAB is a searchable index of academic, peer-reviewed, open access books that includes links to the full-text books on the publishers' websites.
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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
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OAPENThe OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)The DOAB is a searchable index of academic, peer-reviewed, open access books that includes links to the full-text books on the publishers' websites.
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HathiTrustHathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
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OAPENThe OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Preprint Servers
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arXivarXiv is a repository of electronic preprints, or e-prints, in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
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OSF PreprintsOSF Preprints (created by the Center for Open Science) hosts over 2 million cross-disciplinary preprints. It additionally supports dozens of regional and disciplinary preprint servers.
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RePEcRePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is the largest server for Economics-related preprints.
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bioRxivbioRxiv (from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories) is the largest preprint repository for the biological sciences.
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medRxivmedRxiv (from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories) is the largest preprint repository for medicine.
Other Open Access Resources
Images, Audio, Video and Other Media
Open Educational Resources
Open Data
UNC Scholarly Communications Office
The Scholarly Communications Office provides guidance, policy development, and advocacy to faculty, students, and staff on the following issues:
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Copyright and fair use
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Authors’ rights
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Privacy rights
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Open access
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Policy related to scholarly material
For more information, visit the Scholarly Communications Office webpage, or contact Collin Drummond, MSLS.