Scholarly Communications and Open Access subjectId: 668673

Welcome to the Calder Medical Library Resource Guide for Scholarly Communications and Open Access. We have designed this guide to provide information on various open access resources. We hope you find this page useful!

• University of Miami Scholarly Repositiory
  The Scholarly Repository features selected research and scholarly works prepared by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Miami.
• OPEN DOAR
  (Directory of Open Access Repositories)

• ARL/OSC (Association or Research Libraries/Office of Scholarly Communications)
  A nonprofit organization of research libraries that promotes and advocates for barrier-free access to research and educational information resources.
• SPARC -Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
  SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.

• BMC Cell Biology
  BMC Cell Biology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the biology of cells, including organelles and cellular compartments, trafficking and turnover, signaling, motility, adhesion, cell division, differentiation and programmed cell death.
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
  DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
• PLOS
  PLOS publishes a suite of influential journals from all areas of science and medicine that contain rigorously reported, peer-reviewed Open Access research articles.
• PLoS Medicine
  PLOS Medicine is the leading open-access medical journal, providing an influential venue for outstanding research and commentary on the major challenges to human health worldwide.

View open access publications by faculty of UM's Miller School of Medicine in PubMed.
UM Miller School of Medicine Open Access Faculty Publications

• UNESCO - Open Access Portal
  The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), funded by the Governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States Department of State, presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. For countries that have been more successful implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.
• NIH Public Access Policy - Researcher's Portal
  NIH Public Access Policy website.
• ROAR
  Tracks the growth of existing Open Access archives.
• OAA Bibliography
  Tracks studies on the Open Access advantage in research usage and impact.
• ROARMAP
  Tracks the growth of institutional self archiving policies.
• Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography
  Written by CHARLES W. BAILEY, JRTransforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography presents over 1,100 selected English-language scholarly works useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. The bibliography primarily includes books and publishedjournal articles.

• Why Open Access?
  Describes advantages of open access to researchers, educational institutions, and students.
• NIH Public Access Policy
  Offers detailed information to researchers on how to comply with the NIH policy, which requires that the public have access to the published results of NIH-funded research.
• Author's Concerns about Open Access
  Discusses researchers' concerns about copyright, depositing articles in repositories, peer reviewed practices of open access journals, plagiarism, affordability, etc.
• Author's Rights
  Do you want to retain the right to post your article on your course website, or in your institution's digital repository? Do you want to share copies of your articles with your colleagues or students?These and other questions are heard more and more frequently on campuses. That’s why SPARC has developed Author Rights – an educational initiative that informs faculty across all disciplines about their copyrights, and how to use the SPARC Author Addendum to effectively manage your rights as a journal article author to ensure that your article can be accessed and used as broadly as possible.
• SPARCs Author Addendum
  A free, legal document developed by SPARC that can be attached to publishers' copyright forms and modifies publishers' agreements by allowing authors to keep key rights to their articles.
• PLoS (Public Library of Science)
  A leading open access publisher, PLoS provides data to authors, publishers, and readers on "Article-Level Metrics", which are measures for evaluating usage, reach, and research quality of published articles.
• (Mis)Leading Open Access Myths
  Article from Open Access Now, a newsletter once published by BioMed Central, dispelling common myths about open access.
• Open Access Fund (SPARC)
  Guidance provided by SPARC for administrators, authors and publishers on creating and developing open access fund programs at research institutions. Open Access funds are reserved by institutions to cover processing fees of articles published by members of the institution in open access journals.
• Open Access Overview
  This is an introduction to open access (OA) for those who are new to the concept
• Self-Archiving
  Answers to FAQs on self-archiving, the process through which authors deposit their work in institutional repositories.
• Articles for Researchers
  Articles at the OASIS portal present various open access topics of interest to researchers and authors including how to publish a book, citation impact, research metrics, research dissemination, author's rights, author's concerns, etc.
• Briefing Papers
  Information of interest to researchers and authors from the OASIS portal on open access, institutional repositories, open access impact on research, copyright, etc.

For more information on the NIH Public Access Policy, see our Researchers Guide.

Check out this UM Libraries presentation on Predatory Publishers:

Open Access, Predatory Journals, Impact Factors, Data Repositories: What Does It All Mean? (53:20)

Preparing to publish your research?
Avoid predatory and disreputable publishers.
Use the Think, Check, Submit checklist first:

Think. Check. Submit. Checklists 

JANE
The Journal/Author Name Estimator
Enter keywords or an entire abstract and JANE will suggest journals by comparing your input to millions of documents in PubMed to find the matching journals.

SPI-Hub
The Vanderbilt Univesity Medical Center's Center for Knowledge Management
This tool attempts to provide authors with information on journal quality, rigor, and transparency to aid informed decision making on publishing venues.

DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals 
DOAJ works to  to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals.  Listed journals must meet the DOAJ quality and integrity standards. Look up journals by topic, easlity see Journal processing fees and copyright/reuse policies

Think, Check, Submit
The Think, Check, Submit process will help you discover what you need to know when assessing whether or not a journal is a suitable venue for your research.

Where to Publish Your Research: Identifying Potential Journals
A guide from the Duquesne University Library

Journals Accepting Case Reports
Gotschall T, Spencer A, Hoogland MA, Cortez E, Irish E. Journals accepting case reports. ​Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2023 Oct 2;111(4):819-822. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2023.1747.  Downloadable list of journals and information at Open Science Foundation