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Accessing Research After Graduation: Open Access Resources
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Download the Unpaywall browser extension for Chrome or Firefox. When you view a research article, Unpaywall automatically looks for a copy in its index of 20 million free, legal full-text PDFs. If it finds one, you can click the green tab to read the open version. - Open Access Button
Free and legal research articles delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors.
Ask the author: Many authors are happy to share their research if you just ask. Look for their email on the publication page, the university page, Twitter, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, or ORCID (https://orcid.org/).
Accessing Open Access Articles
- Google Scholar: Look for a [HTML] or [PDF] icon on the right side of the search results. You may have to click the versions link:
- PubMed is a search engine of articles in life sciences and biomedicine. Use the “Text Availability” filter on the left-side to view full text open access articles:
- The Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Everything in the DOAJ is openly available to download and read.
- CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals.
Open Access Journals
- Open Research Oklahoma (ORO)
Open Research Oklahoma (ORO) is Oklahoma State University's institutional repository (IR), an open collection of OSU theses & dissertations, faculty publications and research, digital special collections, open access publications, open educational resources, scholarship created by students in undergraduate research programs, and much more.
- arXivarXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
- Collabra PsychologyCollabra: Psychology is a mission-driven Open Access (OA) journal from the University of California Press that shares not only the research it publishes, but also the value created by the psychology community during the peer-review process.
- Elementa: Science of the AnthropoceneElementa: Science of the Anthropocene publishes original research reporting on new knowledge of the Earth’s physical, chemical, and biological systems; interactions between human and natural systems; and steps that can be taken to mitigate and adapt to global change. Elementa is joining UC Press in January 2017 (currently a BioOne journal).
- OpenDOAROpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
- Open Library of the HumanitiesAn open access publisher in the humanities.
- SAGE OpenA peer-reviewed open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles. Articles are from across the spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities including education, communication, and business.
Open Access Books
- HaithiTrustHathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
- Directory of Open Access Books7,322 Academic peer-reviewed books and chapters from 192 publishers in all subjects
- Open Access eBooks from JSTORMore than 500 titles are available at no cost to libraries or users.
- Internet ArchiveCollection of public domain e-books, older educational films, newsreels, etc.,
Open Access Media
- Open Access Images from ARTstor1 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as 100,000s of open access images from partner museums. Access 1 million+ additional images with OSU login.
- Getty Open Content ProgramImages of paintings, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, antiquities, sculpture, decorative arts, artists' sketchbooks, watercolors, rare prints from the 16th through the 18th century, and 19th-century architectural drawings of cultural landmarks from The Getty's collections.
- Digital Video guide from University of MinnesotaCollection of links to open digital video.
- Digital Collections of the Library of CongressFilms, photos, and music in the public domain. Click here for audio recordings of poetry.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaAudio (including poetry recordings & oral histories), video, images, and archival materials in many other formats.
- Internet ArchivePoetry recordings, music, videos, and many other types of digital media. Click icon above search bar to limit to a particular format.
- Legal Music for Videos from Creative CommonsHow to find and legally use music licensed under Creative Commons.
- MusopenCopyright-free classical music recordings, sheet music, and textbooks.
- Audio Downloads from Adobe AuditionThousands of uncompressed, royalty-free audio sound effects and music loop files
