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Open Access

Open Access resources are freely available to everyone online. Learn more about OA and how PCOM Library can help you publish in OA journals.

Key Open Access and Author Rights Resources

Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
Membership means that the publisher is bound by a code of conduct based on standard publishing practices and transparency.

PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
Free full-text articles from a growing number of publications with direct links in Medline

Copyright and Author Rights

Copyright Advisory Services
This is a well organized site that covers a wide range of copyright issues, including publication agreements.
Crash Course in Copyright
Tutorial on copyright created by Georgia Harper, University of Texas System.
Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine
This site will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.

SHERPA/RoMEO This link opens in a new window
Self-Archiving database of publishers and the rights they permit for authors to archive their research in online repositories.
What the assigned colors mean.

SPARC Author Rights
A brochure on author rights and the use of the author's addendum.
Stanford Copyright and Fair Use
A guide to all things copyright from Stanford University Libraries.