Resources: Resource Types

• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) – Provides more than 120 million documents from more than 6,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access)
• CORE (COnecting REpositories) – An aggregation of open access content from UK and worldwide repositories and open access journals. It provides a range of services including discovery, analytics, and text mining access
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) – academic open access books from hundreds of publishers
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – global list of fully OA journals
• Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) – A searchable international database indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents.

Automatically search for open access options for paywalled outputs:

• CORE Discovery – An in-browser extension from CORE (see above) – also recommends OA articles on a similar subject if the article is paywalled
• GetPDF – Coming soon from Open Access Button
• Kopernio – Provides a ‘get PDF’ button on your browser
• Open Access Button – Automatically detects paywalled articles and presents an open access alternative (for example a version in an institutional repository)
• Unpaywall – An extension which searches Unpaywall’s database of millions of free scholarly articles each time you encounter a paywall.

• Altmetrics
• Article Version Explainer – A guide to terminology
• Creative Commons
• Digital Curation Centre
• Digital Preservation Handbook
• Direct2AAM – Shows authors how to retrieve their accepted manuscript from most common publisher submission tools.
• DMP creation tool - DMPonline
• Global Open Access Portal (UNESCO)  – OA implementation and policies in 158 countries.
• How to make your work open access by Peter Suber
• Introduction to Open Access by JISC
• Meaningful Metrics
• Monitoring the transition to open access: December 2017 by the Universities UK Open Access Coordination Group.
• MRC Data Sharing Information
• MRC Data Sharing Policy
• Open Access and the Humanities – Martin Paul Eve
• Open Access Resource Centre – Useful News and Resources
• Open Access timeline / chronology by Marie Lebert.
• Open innovation, open science, open to the world – Key concepts of open science and open innovation
• ORCID  (a unique identifier for academics)
• RCUK Policy
• REF Open Access Requirements
• Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
• Sherpa / Romeo – Publisher Policies – Journal Articles
• Think Check Submit – A site that assists researchers in identifying trusted journals for their research.