Looking for open access academic publications

Looking for open access academic publications

Contact person

Urfist de Paris,

secretariat-urfist@psl.eu  

Course description

Complete course material : https://urfist.chartes.psl.eu/sites/default/files/ab/bouchard_urfistparis_ri-oa_022024.pdf

I am looking for open access publications

    – Bibliographic databases and scientific search engines

  • general scientific search engines: Google scholar
  • commercial bibliographic bases: Web of Science and Scopus
  • the mega-indexes: Dimensions, The Lens
  • the newcomers: OpenAlex, Matilda
  • scientific search engines dedicated to open access: BASE, CORE, OpenAIRE…
  • Gold open access: journals and books
  • magazines: DOAJ, Paperity…
  • the case of French-speaking magazines: Persée, OpenEdition journals, Cairn, Mir@bel…
  • the works: DOAB

    – Green open access: deposit and self-archiving platforms

  • institutional open archives: HAL
  • thematic open archives: arXiv, PMC…
  • the case of theses: theses.fr, TEL…
  • the case of research data – research data (examples): Zenodo…

    -Browser extensions: Open access button, Unpaywall, Google scholar button, Click and Read, …

    – Open access more or less open and more or less black

  • ask the authors
  • academic social networks: ResearchGate, Academia
  • other social networks: #IcanhazPDF, Reddit Scholar
  • web archives: Internet archive scholar
  • clandestine libraries: SciHub, LibGen

I would like to publish or distribute in open access

  • institutional policies
  • funder policy: Sherpa Juliet…
  • positioning of the editors: Sherpa Romeo, Mir@bel…
  • publish in gold open access
  • publish an article: DOAJ…
  • publish a work
  • predatory publishers and pseudo-scientific journals
  • d-eposit/distribute in open access
  •  the case of preprints
  • individual action of the researcher

Learning objectives

  1. Understanding “open access” (green, gold, black…)
  2. Using databases and research tools for academic open access
  3. Open access publishing

Course duration and period

6 hours + 1 h exercise before, various dates every year

Format

Online

Prerequisites

None

Deadline for registration

One week before the course

Who Should Attend

Post-graduate students, academics, librarians, trainers