Open Access and Creative Commons

There are an increasing number of journals freely accessible via the web. These are known as "open access" journals:

• Some of these, like the PLoS (Public Library of Science) journals, are published directly onto the web and are immediately available.
• Other journals, like those available via the the Highwire Press site are sometimes not able to be viewed freely until a set time after initial publication (this usually ranges from 6 to 24 months).
• Some sites, like BioMed Central, include a mixture of freely available and subscription journals.
• DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals, provides access to journals across a range of discipline areas.

Library databases you can search for open access articles and paper in:

Other collections you can search for articles and papers in:

Individual journals

• Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development OA Journal @CQUniversity

Statistics

Datasets

• ANDS Australian National Data Service Brief summary)
• Australian Government Datasets Data.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government and state and territory governments.
• Google Public Data Explorer
• U.S. Government's open data
• Queensland Government Datasets
• Creative Commons Open Data
• Amazon Web Services Public Data Sets
• OSDC Public data Sets

eprints are digital preprints or post prints of journal articles, theses, conference papers, chapters of books, or books freely available online. These are commonly found on author's personal websites, disciplinary archives, and institutional repositories.

CQUniversity's repository is called ACQUIRE. It is a digital repository designed to enhance CQUniversity's research output by:

• Providing free web access to publications by CQUniversity staff and students, where copyright permits.
• Increasing visibility of CQUniversity's research publications through open access compliant records that can be harvested by major search engines, including Google.
• Increasing impact and citation rates of CQUniversity's research publications.
• Facilitating collaboration between researchers by enabling them to easily share data and publications.
• Preserving CQUniversity's research for the future.

Other repositories include:

• COAR Confederation of Open Access Repositories
• Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) – OpenDOAR is a directory of academic open access repositories.
• Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) – aims to promote the development of open access by providing information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world.
• FigShare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs.
• OAISter – OAIster is a union catalog of millions of open access records, including ebooks, online journals, audio files, image files, and movies. The catalog was built through harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 1,500 organisations, including including arXiv, CiteBase, ANU ePrints, and ePrints@UQ.
• allAcademic - is an application service provider specializing in tools in storage and archiving, for the academic research community.