Finding Open Access Resources
Finding Open Access resources through a web search is not always the best approach. Using curated collections of OA materials, and academic search engines or portals can focus your searching.
The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is a "community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals". The DOAB provides a similar directory for Open Access books.
BASE, from Bielefeld University Library, is a huge academic search engine providing access to over 150 million scholarly resources. About 60% of the content is Open Access full text.
PLOS is a leading Open Access publisher in science and medicine.
The Digital Commons Network provides an interactive, visual portal to find OA content by subject area, from the broad to the specific.
Some major publishers like Wiley, Taylor & Francis and Springer have a mix of subscription and Open Access content, and a Google Scholar search will help you find Open Access content.
Many Open Access publications are held in institutional and other repositories, like the VU Publications Repository. The Open DOAR project provides a directory of Open Access repositories from around the world.
