Open Access Publishing Tools

Tools that help in making decisions about open access publishing

  1. Sherpa Juliet - Sherpa Juliet enables researchers and librarians to see funders' conditions for open access publication.
  2. Sherpa/Romeo - Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
  3. The Journal Checker Tool - The tool checks if this combination of funder, institution, and journal offers any route to compliance with Plan S
  4. OpenDOAR - OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. A tool that allows you to search repository by location, topic or type.
  5. Keep the author's copyrights
    The academic landscape is evolving, with a growing emphasis on open access initiatives. This shift is prompting a reevaluation of traditional publishing models, particularly regarding article ownership. Current trends in academia are increasingly advocating for authors to retain the rights to their scholarly works, rather than transferring ownership to publishers. 

Addendum- Appendix attached to the contract sent by the publisher to retain the author's copyrights

  1. Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine
    You can download an appendix to the publisher's agreement that grants authors the right to use their articles for teaching and research purposes, as well as to present them at conferences and engage in other academic activities.

  2. BTAA Author Addendum
  3. SPARC Author Addendum
  4. Creative Commons

 

Repositories Database:
Pay attention! The upload is subject to the publishers' policy on the subject.

  1. ArXiv - a free distribution service and an open-access archive in the fields of science.
  2. SocArXiv - Repository in the field of social science.
  3. SSRN Repository in the fields of Humanities and social science.
  4. Zenodo - An open repository for articles, databases, software, reports, etc. in all areas.
  5. PsyArXiv - A preprint repository for the psychology.
  6. REPEC  - Repository in the field of economics and related sciences.