Open Access

(a four-video series from SPARC providing an overview of Open Access work in libraries)
(a 10 minute video, 2012, from Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics))

- search or browse ��'s growing OA content.
- search or browse the OA content available through the Digital Commons platform.
Search the - a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources built through harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
- includes �� dissertations and theses
- searchable metadata for (information about the theses) from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions
- search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held
- a database of repositories aiming to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world
- searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require or request their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.
- offers an overview of existing international repositories for research data

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