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Scholarly Communication

This guide will help you understand what is included under the umbrella of “scholarly communications” and how it affects you.

Finding Open Access Materials

If you see this icon next to materials listed in a search, it means it’s open access.

Public domain materials and Open Access Databases
Find open access materials using these resources in CUA research guides.

Tools to find open access materials
These tools and plugins will help you to detect freely available published papers.

Organizations that publish or direct you to open access sources:

  • PLOS: PLOS is a non-profit open access publisher that publishes journals in the sciences and medicine. 

  • Open Library Of Humanities: OHL is an open access publisher of humanities scholarship with over 33 journals. 

  • MDPI: MDPI has 443 peer-reviewed journals in a wide variety of disciplines such as biology, business, and engineering. 

  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is an index of open access journals from around the globe. 

  • Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): DOAB is a discovery service that provides access to open access books.