Tools for OA

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This list is still under development. Every part of it may change before the official launch, including its title, URL, and method of organization. The list consists of platforms, best practices, and services that help and guide those who are learning and studying about, developing, or initiating OA.
• This list contains notable tools both for those looking for OA research and for those producing it.
• For researchers, the list contains numerous databases, indexes, news sources, and other tools for opening and facilitating research process.
• For authors, information is provided for learning more about OA repositories and policies.
• Indexes and maps providing a comparative and global perspective on OA, along with funding sources for OA research, will be of use to both.
• The list is arranged alphabetically by categories; what each tool is for.

Discovering and Disseminating

To searching and navigate OA journals, articles, books.

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)

http://www.base-search.net/

• Host/initiator/developer: Bielefeld University Library

BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. It is a search engine normalized and indexed data from more than 2,700 academic OA web resources used Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Seventy percent of the full texts is indexed. The Index is continuously enhanced by integrating further OAI sources as well as local sources. It is a part of Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER). Database managers can integrate the BASE index into your own local infrastructure (e.g. meta search engines, library catalogues) via an interface.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

http://www.doabooks.org/

• Host/initiator/developer: OAPEN Foundation (http://www.oapen.org/home)

Is a directory of OA books. Libraries can integrate the directory into their webpac or online catalogs. DOAB helps to increase discoverability of OA books.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

http://www.doaj.org/

• Host/initiator/developer: DOAJ

Is a one-stop shop for searching and discovering OA scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

Infrastructure Services for Open Access

http://is4oa.org/

• Host/initiator/developer: Community Interest Companies (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-the-regulator-of-community-interest-companies)

Helps to discover and locate OA publications. It can be integrated in library catalogs or web portals.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

http://oatd.org/ A resource for finding OA graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. OATD currently indexes 2,060,382 electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), along with metadata from over 1,000 colleges, universities, and research institutions (a select list is available here: http://oatd.org/oatd-publishers.html). Some of the records come directly from institutional repositories, while others come from regional or national consortia, or from a set of catalog records provided by OCLC Worldcat. OATD does not host the full text of ETDs, but rather indexes about the first 30 pages of some theses to show search hits. Publishers of Gold Open Access Journals: any sources that provide list of publishers that charge for publishing

Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013

http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/

• Host/initiator/developer: Jeffrey Beall

Consists of questionable individuals journals and publishers that adopt the gold OA model, author processing fees.

===Open Access Library (OALib)=== DISCOVERY AND DISSEMINATING (PUBLISHING PLATFORM) http://www.oalib.com/ A shared academic database that aims to be both an academic search engine and a publisher. Researchers can search, submit, and recommend papers for free. So far, OALib has indexed over 2 million OA papers, but the tool does not include filtering options based on journal, peer review, etc.

Open Access Map

http://www.openaccessmap.org/ This service from OASIS, in partnership with Open Society Foundations, EnablingOpenScholarship, EIFL, and SPARC, attempts to provide “a single location where OA initiatives can be discovered.” The map case be searched or used to get an overview of OA developments and initiatives around the world, including funding policies, government documents, university mandates, etc. It is hoped that the tool “can be used for OA education training and advocacy and should be extremely valuable in informing different constituencies, including policymakers and legislators, about the progress of OA in simple, clear and easily usable ways.”

Open Library

https://openlibrary.org/ Providing over a million free titles, and 20 million records from various catalogs, this site’s motto is, “One web page for every book.” Open Library, a project of the non-profit Internet Archive and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation, aspires to be truly open in every way: “the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution.” An additional feature is the use of statistical and graphic data on collections, use, and community activity. Unfortunately, the site can be misleading at first, as not every work with record is available electronically, and even for free.

===Open Science Framework SciNet=== DISCOVERY AND DISSEMINATING (HARVESTER?) http://scinet.osf.io/ Not only is much research locked behind tolls, but so are the citations in that research. In response, this crowd-sourced effort uses the open source Citelet extension for Chrome to compile a “comprehensive metadata dataset of scientific citations and corresponding references to unlock the citation network.” Citelet first determines whether a given article has extractable metadata, then whether database has it; if not, Citelet captures the citation and reference information and sends it all to the system for processing and storage.

ROAD

http://road.issn.org/ This directory of resources is a “service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO.” It provides free access to a subset of the ISSN Register, comprising “bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access which have been assigned an ISSN by the ISSN Network.” Records can currently be downloaded as a MARC XML dump and will be available as RDF triples in 2014. “The bibliographic records have been enriched by metadata about the coverage of the resources by indexing, abstracting, citation databases, registries and journals indicators.” The purpose of ROAD is 1) to provide a single access point to different types of global online scholarly resources; 2) to provide information about the use of the OA resources identified by an ISSN in the scholarly community; 3) to give an overview of global OA scholarly production; and 4) to demonstrate new ways of using the ISSN for compiling information from various sources.

TagTeam

http://tagteam.harvard.edu/

• Harvard University

Formerly known as the OA Tracking Project (OATP) (http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project), this open-source social-tagging platform and feed aggregator is now part of the Harvard Open Access Project. TagTeam aggregates anything that publishes RSS, creates custom feed remixes, curates tags via a flexible filtering system, and republishes everything as Atom, RSS, XML, and json. More information: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Intro_to_TagTeam