Around the globe organizations are celebrating Open Access Week. What is open access and why is it worth celebrating? Here are some resources to answer your questions.

A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
Peter Suber lays it all out for you.

Open Access Subject Guide
Information about open access, including publisher policies, self-archiving and repositories

The Libraries offer the DalSpace repository as a way for you to provide open access to your research.

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BioMed Central is a Science, Technology and Medicine publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model, and Dalhousie Libraries have enabled faculty to publish in these journals at a reduced cost.


Directory of Open Access Journals
Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.