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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.
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| NIH Public Access Legislation Passes
All peer reviewed articles arising from NIH funds are required to be submitted to PubMed Central effective April 7, 2008.
Information about the requirement is available on NIH Public Access:
NIH Public Access Toolkit
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Publishing Choices: Know Your Rights and Expand Your Impact. With Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. View video of Heather Joseph's presentation at UNC, April 2007.
Reading the Fine Print. Chronicle article by UNC's Deborah Gerhardt on negotiating publication contracts.
Organizing the World's Organization: Google's Vision for the 21st Century. View video of Craig Silverstein's presentation at UNC, October 2006.
UNC-CH Authored Articles in Open Access Journals
(PubMed search)
Scholarly Communications in a Digital World: A Convocation
(January 27-28, 2005)
UNC-Chapel Hill Scholarly Communications Working Group
CRADLe - Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries
Open Access (Association of Research Libraries)
Open Access - A Primer (Funk)
Six things that researchers need to know about open access (Suber)
Factors influencing publication choice: why faculty choose open access (Warlick & Vaughan)
"Impact Factor" Revisited (Dong, Loh & Mondry)
Open Access News Blog (Suber)
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (Bailey)
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Publish in Open Access Journals
Keep Your Copyrights
Deposit Your Work in a Repository