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.
  
  
• 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

• Copyright Resources for Authors (SPARC)
  • See also HSL Copyright Resources


• Keep Your Copyright! (Columbia)

 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)

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

• UNC-Chapel Hill Authored Articles in Open Access Journals
• UNC-Chapel Hill Scholarly Communications Working Group
• CRADLe - Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries
• Scholarly Communications in a Digital World: A Convocation, January 2005 (UNC)
• Reading the Fine Print (Gerhardt)
• Factors influencing publication choice: why faculty choose open access (Warlick & Vaughan)

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)

• Open Access (Association of College & Research Libraries)
• Open Access - A Primer (Funk)
• Six things that researchers need to know about open access (Suber)
• "Impact Factor" Revisited (Dong, Loh & Mondry)
• Characteristics of Scholarly Publishing (UMN)
• Open Access News Blog (Suber)
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (Bailey)