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The following are links to selected 'open access' web sites, resources, publications, and more: Videos
Academic Earth Online - Offering free online university courses to anyone around the world.
Bentham Open Access - Over 230 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all major disciplines of science, technology, and more.
BioMed Central - Publisher of 220 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals spanning all areas of biology and medicine.
ClinicalTrials.Gov - A registry and results database of federally and privately supported clinical trials in the U.S. and around the world.
Community College 'Open' Textbooks - Peer reviewed free and open textbooks for use in community college courses.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - A wide range of freely available, online Open Access Journals covering the arts and sciences.
eHealthNews Publications - Portal to a wide range of publications dealing with eHealth and related issues.
Elsevier Open Access - Articles published in their open access journals are available to anyone on the internet and are hosted on their ScienceDirect platform.
Encyclopedia of Life - Providing free and 'open access' to knowledge about life on Earth.
History of Medicine - The history of medicine brought to life by the Science Museum.
OER Commons Textbooks - Information about open textbooks offered through Open Education Commons (OER).
O'Reilly Open Books - Publishers of quite a few Open Books--books with various forms of "open" copyright--over the years.
PubMed - More than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals - Several open access journals of science and medicine.
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) - Providing open access to scientific journals, primarily from Latin America.
SCIENDO - One of the world’s leading Open Access platforms, hosting full texts of nearly 200 scholarly journals.
WikiMedia Commons - An online repository of freely licensed, sharable educational photos and images available on the internet.
World Digital Library - Providing free and open access to historical documents related to medicine from around the world, coordinated by the Library of Congress & UNESCO.
'Open Access' Organizations
OpenStax Connexions - A virtual environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web.
Creative Commons - Helping people to share knowledge, research, and educational materials with others around the world.
EIFL Open Access - A global network of national library consortia advocating open access to knowledge for education & research purposes.
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) - Representing the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally.
Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) - Supporting new communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries.
"By 'Open Access', we mean its immediate, free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose…” - See The Budapest Open Access Initiative
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