Subject Guides: Social Work Research Support: Open Access

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Open Access 101 (video)
Basic introduction to Open Access
OA Answers
Answers to common questions that people have
Directory of Arts and Humanities free journals
Over 2800 links to titles. Directory updated: 1st February 2011. All 2,800+ links in this directory were checked and working at: 31st December 2010
Adam Habib: Journal costs price out developing countries

Useful OA Resources

Accredited Open Access journals
Consolidated list of OA journals which are eligible for DHET subsidy.
Publishers of OA books
Directory of OA Books

More OA Journals

This spreadsheet allows you to search for OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS published by learned societies in your field

OA journals published by scholarly societies
You can sort this file by topic, discipline, journal title or society name (last updated November 2007)

What's the difference?

3 scholars discuss OA

Benefits of Open Access

Public Library of Science (PLOS) Journal was one of the first Open Access journals to be established. This 30 second video illustrates the effect of OA>

Freeing the Literature

News and Information

Books about OA in the UWC Library

The Library has several titles that introduce and discuss issues related to open access.

Suber, P. (2012). Open access, MIT Press. Click here for access
Crawford, W. (2011). Open access: what you need to know now. Chicago: American Library Association
Jacobs, N. (2006). Open access: key strategic, technical and economic aspects. Oxford: Chandos
Hall, G. (2008). Digitize this book!: the politics of new media, or why we need open access. Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing

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