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Open Access refers to unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals, and also increasingly to book chapters or monographs. The Library provides guidance to what resources are available and how they can be accessed.
Irish Repositories
Research@THEA
Research@THEA is an open access repository that launched in 2017 as a service for capturing, storing, preserving and showcasing the research output of Institutes of Technology in Ireland. As the material is freely available online to anybody with access to the Internet, the potential readership of open access articles far exceeds that of articles where the full text is restricted to subscribers. This increased visibility can result in raising profiles and citations for researchers.
RIAN
RIAN provides a single point of access to Irish research publications and contains content harvested from institutional repositories. It allows enhanced searching and browsing of aggregated content through normalised metadata and permits analyses of the content of research publications and the identification of research trends.
Open Access Directories
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
An online directory indexing and providing access to high quality, open access peer-reviewed journals with the aim of increasing viability and ease of use of open access scholarly journals, promoting and increasing usage and impact.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
An online directory of academic peer-reviewed books from a range of publishers.
Directory of Open Access Books
OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories
An online directory providing access to open access repositories from around the world.
Directory of Open Access Repositories
ROAR: Registry of Open Access Repositories
Promotes the development of open access by providing access to timely information about the growth and status of repositories around the world
Preprint Archives
ArXiv
Provides open access to over 9000,000 e-prints in Physics, mathematics, computer Science, Qualitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
PsyArXiv
An open access preprint service for the psychological sciences maintained by The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.
SocArXiv
Open access archive of Social Sciences providing a free, non-profit open access platform for researchers to upload working papers, preprints and published papers.
Open Access Theses
DART Europe E-Thesis Portal
A partnership of research libraries and library consortia working together to improve global access to European Research theses.
EThOS E-Thesis Online (British Library)
The UK’s national thesis service aiming to maximise the visibility and availability of UK doctorial research theses.
NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
An international organisation promoting the adoption creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Open Access Subject Repositories
| Art | |
| Kultur | A JISC funded project creating a model of an institutional repository for use in the creative and applied arts. |
| Art History | |
| Art-Dok | A specialised information service made available by Heidelberg University Library for Art, Photography and Design. |
| Computer Science | |
| CiteSeerx. | CiteSeerx. Successor to CiteSeer. From Lee Giles. (The original CiteSeer was from Giles, Steve Lawrence, and Kurt Bollacker.) |
| Computing Research Repository | |
| DSpace at the University of Texas at Austin | |
| eptcs.org | Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. An OA repository for refereed conference proceedings. |
| Vixra | Policy: English. Digital Signal Processing, Data Structures and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence. |
| Humanities & Literature | |
| DASH | Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard. |
| DOAB | Directory of Open Access Books. An online directory of academic peer-reviewed books from a range of publishers. |
| English & American Literature Research Network | |
| Open Library of Humanities | The Open Library of Humanities does not charge any author fees. Instead, publishing costs are paid by an international library consortium. |
| Psychology | |
| PsyArXiv | An open access preprint service for the psychological sciences maintained by The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. |
| PsyDok |
| Disciplinary Repositories | |
| Disciplinary Repositories | A list of OA disciplinary repositories. |
Publishing through Open Access
In publicly funded institutions, even though research is largely produced with public money by researchers who share it freely, the results are hidden behind technical, legal, and financial barriers. These artificial barriers are maintained by legacy publishers through traditional subscription journal models, and restrict access to a small fraction of users, locking out most of the world’s population and preventing the use of new research techniques.
As a response to this situation, the development of OA publishing arose. Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Source
In 2023 IADT joined the IReL (Irish Research eLibrary) Open Access consortium. Joining IReL has given us access to considerable additional resources, as well as providing an opportunity to publish via Open Access across a number of different key journals without having to pay the article processing charges (APCs). For further information you can see our research page on Orchard here.
To find out more about how to publish your work through Open Access, please see our Library guide on the topic.