The following list of Open Access resources is intended for the research audience; if you have any questions about Open Access, please contact Nancy Shin, Welch Medical Library Scholarly Communications Librarian, at nshin4@jhu.edu for further assistance.
Open Access Journals and Books:
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Comprehensive directory of open access scientific and scholarly journals.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Directory of academic, peer-reviewed books that are published in open access
Internet Archive Book Collection
Some books in the collection are free to read and download.
Other Open Access Resources/Tools
SHERPA/Juliet
Helps you to review your funder’s open access policies and check your grant agreement regarding depositing works in a repository
SHERPA/RoMEO
This is an online resource that aggregates and analyzes publisher open access policies and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
Unpaywall Extension
Based on the Unpaywall database, this browser extension will use the information on a webpage to link you to an open version of an articles that is freely available.