Fast, barrier-free and free access to full-text articles, research data, scientific and educational content. An article available in Open Access can be read, ripped, printed, used without a required subscription to the journal in question.
It is free and open access – the user can use the published text virtually without restriction under free licences, modifications and commercial use are also possible; it is always necessary to indicate the author of the original publication.
It is free and open access – the user may use the published text to the extent specified by the author, non-commercially, for personal use; it is always necessary to indicate the author of the original publication; no licence information is provided.
An interactive tool for checking open access publication options including your own institution and funding institution.
Set of the most popular licenses, defining terms of sharing publications and their future use.
Making publications open access by depositing them by the author in a free repository – when the article has appeared in a subscription journal.
Publish articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals (or books) with open access guaranteed by the publisher.
Access to publication through non-commercial publishing, often funded by universities and scientific societies – neither the author nor the recipient pays.
Version of the article prior to review and editorial work.
Text with changes made by the editors according to the reviewer's comments; peer-reviewed and final version.
A place to deposit, store and make available in digital form current scientific output or research data. A list of all repositories worldwide can be found on the Open DOAR portal (Directory of Open Access Repositories).
A portal created by the University of Nottingham in the UK. It includes a list of repositories ranked by continent, country and institution, and a search engine for archives, allowing them to be found by discipline, document type, country, language, repository type and software.
A repository associated with a particular institution (e.g. a university).
Refers to publications in a specific scientific field or related fields.
A repository in which the deposit of papers is neither institutionally nor subject-matter restricted.
A directory of repositories, created by the University of Southampton in the UK. It contains many options for browsing archives, e.g. by country, year of creation, type of repository, software used, etc. ROAR also provides the Repository66 option – an interactive map of the world with repositories.
A platform that enables simultaneous search of the resources of European repositories. It allows searching not only for publications, but also for descriptions of research projects. By linking multiple pieces of information, it is possible to obtain a comprehensive picture of the research process.
A journal index created by librarians at Lund University (Sweden). Indexes and provides open access to high quality peer-reviewed journals.
Digital documents, other than scientific publications, which are collected or produced as part of a research and scientific activity and can be used as evidence in the research process or to verify the validity of research findings and results.
Journals in which only part of the articles are published in open access. It is up to the author to decide whether the article will be freely available (this involves the author paying an APC fee).
An initiative of 11 national research funding agencies, including the National Science Centre, with the overarching aim of making publications resulting from publicly funded grants openly available.
A central catalogue of all open access digital resources. Currently includes over 50 million records from 2,000 member institutions. It searches for digitised books, manuscripts, master's and PhD theses, statistical data and multimedia material.
