UCF Research Guides: Open Access: Home

What is Open Access?

"Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions."
-- excerpt from Peter Suber's Open Access Overview

Open Access Overview by Peter Suber
"an introduction to open access (OA) for those who are new to the concept"
OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook)
"an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it"
SPARC Open Access Newsletter & Forum (SOAN)
"a monthly newsletter authored by Peter Suber and offering news and analysis of the open access movement"
Open Access Directory (OAD)
"a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship"
Registry of Open Access Repositories
"information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world"

Scholarly Communication Research Guide

The UCF Libraries' Scholarly Communication Research Guide provides additional information and resources.

Creative Commons

"Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright."

Licenses:

Attribution
Attribution Share Alike
Attribution No Derivatives
Attribution Non-Commercial
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

Creative Commons