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Open Access - A guide for researchers: Open Access Resources

National Open Access Monitor

Open Access Monitor: Enhance your approach to Open Science. Explore insights thoughtfully designed to support your strategy and contribute to the future of Irish Open Science. Our current pilot phase, aimed at enhancing data integrity and broadening functionality, continues until June 2024. https://oamonitor.ireland.openaire.eu/

Public Library of Science

Publishers Open Access Policies

Helping authors and institutions to make informed and confident decisions in open access publication and compliance. Formerly Sherpa services.

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Unpaywall

Biomed Central

Open Library of the Humanities

Rights Retention Strategy

The Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) enables authors to exercise the rights they have on their manuscripts to deposit a copy of the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in a repository on publication and provide open access to it. To help researchers acknowledge and assert their rights, cOAlition S is launching an online campaign, under the theme “Publish with Power: Protect your rights“. The campaign aims to encourage researchers to retain their intellectual property rights, explains the steps they need to take and highlights the benefits for them and also for science and society. Below is a suite of resources about the Rights Retention Strategy, freely available for downloading, using and sharing.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Open Access Button

*The Open Access Button will retire on November 18th*

Open Book Publishers

Registry of Open Access Repositories

A Guide to Publishing Open Access Monographs, Books, Book Chapters and Long-form Outputs

This guide has been designed to provide you with an introduction to Open Access Book Publishing. Each section of the resource will introduce you to key themes related to Open Access Book publishing, make you aware of key considerations when devising your publication strategy and provide you with useful resources to explore topics in more detail.

OA Books Toolkit