LibGuides: Curtin College, UniReady and Alumni: Open access resources

What is open access?

"For scholarly work Open Access means making peer reviewed scholarly manuscripts freely available via the Internet, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles".

Australasian Open Access Strategy Group. (2018). What is Open Access? Retrieved from https://aoasg.org.au/what-is-open-access/

Journal collections

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
A directory of open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

BioMed Central
BioMed Central provides free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.

Frontiers
Open access journals covering science, engineering, health sciences and humanities topics.

PLOS (Public Library of Science)
Provides access to seven peer-reviewed journals across all areas of science and medicine.

PubMed Central
PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

SpringerOpen
Open access journals covering business, humanities, science, engineering and health sciences topics.

Taylor & Francis open journals
Includes journals for science, health sciences and humanities topics.

eBook collections

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
The directory includes open access and scholarly eBooks across a range of subject areas.

InTech Open
InTech Open includes books for: physical sciences, engineering, technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.

OAPEN Library
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Open Book Publishers
Open Book Publishers provide access to monographs and textbooks in the humanities and social sciences.

National Academies Press
Provides access to ebooks covering a range of topics in science, engineering, medicine, humanities and social science.

Institutional repositories

Institutional repositories provide open access to research output including theses, journal articles, conference papers and book chapters.

espace
Curtin's institutional research repository, is an open access digital collection containing the research output of Curtin staff and students. Click Open access under Access status in the left menu to limit to available resources.

Australian OA Repositories
A list of repository contacts for repositories in Australian and New Zealand universities maintained by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL).

Evaluating online resources

It is important to assess the credibility and accuracy of online resources you use in your study and research. See our guide on Evaluating Online Resources and Effective Internet Searching for more information.