Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access is the needed modern update for the communication of research that fully utilizes the Internet for what it was originally built to do—accelerate research.
Open Access literature is often classified into several subcategories:
(Source: Piwowar, H., Priem, J., Larivière, V., Alperin, J. P., Matthias, L., Norlander, B., Farley, A., West, J., & Haustein, S. (2018). The state of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ, 6, e4375. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375)
The library's OER guide also includes suggestions and resources related to Open Access:
Index and free access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.
Multidisciplinary index of over 17,000 peer-reviewed open access journals, covering subjects in humanities, social sciences, STEM, and medicine. (FREE)
Collection of Open Access repositories providing free access to academic outputs and resources.
Nonprofit publisher of Open Access journals publishing research in science and medicine.
More than 300 peer-reviewed open access journals, part of Springer Nature.
Full-text archive of journals in biomedical and life sciences. (FREE version)