Open access/Catalogs

An incomplete list of Open Access projects

Subject or discipline repositories
These collections of articles and other information on a particular subject or academic discipline.
 * arXiv: Physics/Mathematics OA Archive (central)
 * CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences OA Archive (central)
 * Citebase: Citation-linked browser (harvested from distributed websites)
 * Citeseer: Computer Science (harvested from distributed websites)
 * JournalReview: An open access archive for reviews and discussion of medical and scientific literature
 * OpenMED@NIC: An open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences
 * PubMed Central: the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
 * Research Papers in Economics: a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 45 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components.

Open access publishers

 * Molecular Diversity Preservation International
 * Public Library of Science
 * Hindawi, (42+ full open access STM journals), e.g.,
 * Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (ISSN 1687-5265)
 * BioMed Central
 * Scholarly Exchange
 * Springer (Offers open access as an option in all its 1200+ journals)
 * Copernicus open-access journals

Open access encyclopedias

 * Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: an academic encyclopedia, produced by philosophy scholars
 * Wikipedia: not necessarily written by academic authors
 * Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science: "a natural expansion of the work carried out preparing the Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede, published in Italian in 2002 (Rome: Urbaniana University Press - Città Nuova, 2002), partly translated into English and offered here on-line."

Directories and lists

 * Lists of open access journals
 * Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
 * Die Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (English version) (EZB)
 * LivRe
 * Open J-Gate
 * Jan Szczepanski's lists of open access journals
 * Yahoo's Free Full Text
 * List of Open Access Journals in the Field of Education
 * List of open access journals with Wikipedia entries


 * Lists of open access archives and repositories (limited to those that are OAI-compliant)
 * The University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registry
 * Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
 * OAIster list
 * Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
 * Peter Suber's list of the better lists


 * Open Access Directory
 * Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)
 * ROMEO/Eprints Registry of Journal Self-Archiving Policies
 * SHERPA/RoMEO Registry of Publisher Self-Archiving Policies
 * Peter Suber's timeline of the OA movement
 * Peter Suber's list of what you can do to promote open access

Open access research tools

 * impact ranking search engine
 * download/citation correlator

Tracking open access developments

 * Open Access News, a weblog by Peter Suber
 * SPARC Open Access Newsletter, news and analysis by Peter Suber
 * American Scientist Open Access Forum, covering open access developments since 1998

Other open access resources

 * Open Access to Scientific Literature - OASE
 * PLEIADI: Portal for the Italian Electronic Literature in Open and Institutional Archives