This guide links to the following resources

Creative Commons

Directory of Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Repositories

SHERPA/RoMEO

SHERPA/FACT

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

References cited

¹ Piwowar, H., Priem, J., Larivière, V., Alperin, J.P., Matthias, L., Norlander, B., Farley, A., West, J. and Haustein, S. (2018) ‘The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access Articles’, PeerJ 6:e4375 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375 (Accessed 29 December 2019).

² Coalition-S (2020). Plan S: making full and immediate Open Access a reality [Online]. Available at: https://www.coalition-s.org/ (Accessed 31 January 2020).

³ Costello, E. (2018) ‘Bronze, free or fourée: an open access commentary’, Science Editing vol. 6, issue 1, pp. 69-72 [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.157 (Accessed 27 January 2019).

⁴ Tennant, J.P., Crane, H., Crick, T. et al. (2019) ‘Ten hot topics in scholarly publishing’, Publications, vol. 7, issue 2, [Online]. Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/7/2/34/htm (Accessed 3 January 2020).

⁵ Jamali, H.R. (2017) ‘Copyright compliance and infringement in ResearchGate full-text journal articles’, Scientometrics, vol. 112, pp. 241-254 [Online]. Available at: https://link-springer-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/article/10.1007/s11192-017-2291-4 (Accessed 29 January 2020).

⁶ Björk, B-C. (2016) ‘Gold, green and black open access’, Learned Publishing, vol. 30, pp. 173-175 [Online]. Available at: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1096 (Accessed 29 December 2019).

7 Langin, K. (2019) ‘For academics, what matters more: journal prestige or readership?’, Science [Online]. Available at: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/07/academics-what-matters-more-journal-prestige-or-readership (Accessed 4 January 2020).

8 Pollock, D. and Michael, A. (2019) ‘Open access mythbusting: Testing two prevailing assumptions about the effects of open access adoption’, Learned Publishing, vol. 32, pp. 7-12 [Online]. Available at: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1209 (Accessed 29 January 2020).

⁹ McCann, T.V. and Polacsek, M. (2017) ‘False gold: safely navigating open access publishing to avoid predatory publishers and journals’, Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol. 74, pp. 809-817 [Online]. Available at: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1111/jan.13483 (Accessed 29 December 2019).

¹⁰ Björk, B-C., Kanto-Karvonen, S. and Harviainen, J.T. (2019) How frequently are articles in predatory Open Access journals cited [Online]. Available at: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1912/1912.10228.pdf (Accessed 29 December 2019).

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