Scholarly Communication at MTSU: Open Access

DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

A compendium of simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship.

A guide to good practices for university open-access policies, based on policies developed at major universities.

A coalition of patient groups, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, publishers, and health promotion organizations that support barrier-free access to taxpayer-funded research.

COAPI brings together representatives from North American universities with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies.

An international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.

Provides public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Locate, identify, and cite research data with the leading global provider of DOIs for research data.

Uk-based centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management.

Discovering data and non-text information in the Department of Energy.

A curated general-purpose repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.

A resource on data and metadata standards.

Allows users to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and filesets can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow.

This guide outlines the process of developing a data management and sharing plan.

Registry of research data repositories.

Includes selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data.