The Health Sciences Library supports Open Access, Open Archives, and Open Repositories as methods to encourage the widest possible access to scholarly content.

• Open Access
  • Scholarly content made available free of charge to anyone upon publication.
    • A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access (Peter Suber)
  
  
• Open Archives
  • Scholarly content in subscription publications made available free of charge after an initial embargo period.
  
  
• Open Repositories
  • Digital collections of scholarly content on a particular subject or the collected intellectual works of an institution or group of institutions.

 Keep Your Copyrights

• Scholar's Copyright Addendum (Science Commons)


• Resources for Authors - Author Rights Initiative (SPARC)
  • See also HSL Copyright Resources
  
  
• Keep Your Copyright! (Columbia)


• Know Your Copyrights! (ARL)

 Publish in Open Access Journals

• UNC Funding to Support Open Access Fees
  • Download Application
  
  
  BioMed Central
  
  • BMC Supporters Membership
  • 15% discount on UNC-Chapel Hill author article processing charges


• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
  
  • 10% of UNC-Chapel Hill author fees covered
  
  
  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

 Deposit Your Work in a Repository

• PubMed Central
  • REQUIRED for NIH grantees
  • UNC NIH Public Access Toolkit
  • NIH Manuscript Submission System
  
  
  OpenDoar
  • Quality-assured listing of open access repositories world-wide

 Advocate for Open Access

• Create Change: Get More From Your Academic Research


• Open Doors & Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work (SPARC/Science Commons White Paper)


• Promotion
  • What Universities & Administrators Can Do to Promote Open Access
  • What Faculty Can Do to Promote Open Access
  • What Librarians Can Do to Promote Open Access

• UNC-Chapel Hill Authored Articles in Open Access Journals


• UNC-Chapel Hill Scholarly Communications Working Group

Videos

• Publishing Choices: Know Your Rights and Expand Your Impact, presented by Heather Joseph, April 2007 (UNC & SPARC)


• Organizing the World's Organization: Google's Vision for the 21st Century, presented by Craig Silverstein, October 2006 (UNC & Google)

Primers

• Open Access - A Primer (Funk)


• Very Brief Introduction to Open Access (Suber)

Blogs

• DigitalKoans


• Open Access News Blog


• Open Access Archivangelism


• Open Library Blog


• Science Commons Blog

Other Resources

• Digital Scholarship


• Income Models for Open Access (SPARC)


• Open Access Directory (Simmons College)


• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association


• Open Content Alliance


• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography


• Science Commons