Related websites and literature
Below is a selection of links to websites on subjects related to this Project. The list is by no means comprehensive. Instead it is intended as a good starting point for anyone who wishes to know more about scholarly publishing, open access and institutional repositories.
On this page,
- Open access movement websites
- Institutional repository websites
- Repository-related service and project websites
Open access movement websites
- Open Archives Initiative
develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. - Open Access News
daily updates on everything that is news edited by Peter Suber - Open Access Archivangelism
Steve Harnad's blog covering all that is open access - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coaltion (SPARC)
an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. - The SPARC Open Access Newsletter
monthly newsletter of open access developments edited by Peter Suber
Institutional repository websites
- The Directory of Open Access Repositories, OpenDOAR
an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. - Institutional Contacts for Authors (UK)
list of UK repositories and contact points, maintained by the SHERPA project - Repository software
- Repositories of The Russell Group universities
- University of Birmingham - UBIRA
ePrints, ePapers and eTheses. - University of Bristol - ROSE,
offers open access to the full text of the academic research of the University, complements University's Integrated Research Information System. - University of Cambridge - DSpace @ Cambridge,
strategic service for university with support team and university mandate. - Cardiff University - Cardiff ePrints Caerdydd,
a digital repository of research publications. - University of Edinburgh - ERA,
a digital repository of research, includes theses and dissertations. - University of Glasgow - Glasgow ePrints Service,
database of published material including peer-reviewed journal articles, published conference papers, books and book chapters. - Imperial College London - Spir@l,
contains full text peer-reviewed versions of journal articles produced by academic staff. - King's College London - King's ePrints archive
- University of Leeds - WRRO,
a shared, open access repository for the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. - University of Liverpool - in development
see The University of Liverpool Research Archive - London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE Research Online,
includes journal articles, book chapters, working papers, conference papers - University of Manchester - in development,
this project - Newcastle University - Library E-Print pilot,
a pilot service setup to host the University's research output - University of Nottingham - Nottingham ePrints,
a digital archive of research papers - Queen's University Belfast - in development
- University of Oxford - Oxford Eprints,
a digital archive for research articles. - University of Sheffield - WRRO,
a shared, open access repository for the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. - University of Southampton - e-Prints Soton,
electronic copies of any University research output (journal articles, book chapters, conference papers etc even multimedia), includes unpublished manuscripts and papers. - University College London - UCL Eprints,
an open access repository that collects the work of UCL researchers and makes it freely available. - University of Warwick - in development
see Warwick Research Archive Project (WRAP)
- University of Birmingham - UBIRA
Repository-related services and project websites
- arXiv.org
open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics. - A Cross Archive Search Service (ARC)
an experimental research service of Digital Library Research group at Old Dominion University. - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
a multi-disciplinary search engine for scientifically relevant web resources created by Bielefeld University Library. - CiteULike
a bookmarking website, a bit like del.icio.us, but that stores the URL and metadata for publications, rather than just the URL and title (thanks to Mike Pigram for recommending this service) - Computer and Information Science Papers (CiteSeer)
a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. - Connotea
Connotea is a free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists. Produced by Nature Publishing this web service enables you to store, organise and share your bibiliographies. A powerful and useful tool. - EThOS
developing a national eTheses service. - Google Scholar
the ubiqutous search engine for finding scholarly works. - Intute
a multi-disciplinary online service providing you with access to web resources for education and research. - JISC Digital Repository Wiki
aimed at individuals working on JISC funded repository projects and other experts in the field of digital repositories. - OAISter
a cross disciplinary search engine indexing respositories supporting the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. - PublicationList.org
a free service with paid-for add-on features that lets researchers and research organizations maintain a reliable web-based record of their academic output without any fuss
- Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
repository index and usage statistics. - Repository66.org
geographical location of repositories. - Repositories Support Project
support service for UK repository growth. - ScientificCommons.org
ScientificCommons.org aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet. It uses the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) to retrieve scientific knowledge data from subject-specific and institutional repositories. - Scirus
a science-specific search engine indexing a large set of data sources including institutional repositories. - SHERPA/OpenDOAR
a directory of worldwide open access repositories. - SHERPA/RoMEO
publisher copyright and self-archiving policies. - SHERPA/JULIET
Research funders' open access policies. - the Depot
a re-direct service acting as a gateway to institutional repositories and a deposit service for e-prints. - Zetoc
access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year - Zotero
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources ... and its really impressive.