Open Access

Here are just a few ideas of how you can help advance open access to scholarship and research:

• Help raise awareness. Describe how open access accelerates change by disseminating research widely and immediately. Explain how open access can raise the visibility and impact of research.
• Choose OA publication outlets for your scholarship whenever possible
• Contribute to a disciplinary repository
• Encourage your colleagues, students, and mentees to publish open access
• Advocate for changes in the promotion, tenure, and retention process to value peer-reviewed open access articles equally with comparable articles published in subscription-based journals
• Support open access journals by accepting their offers to serve on the editorial board or invitations to perform peer-review
• Promote open access within your professional or scholarly society. Help persuade your society to makes its own journal open access.

Selecting and evaluating an open access publication:

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
• Think. Check. Submit.
  • Think. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals for their research.
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (OASPA, WAVE, COPE)
  • Principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications as enumerated and explained by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association), and WAME (World Association of Medical Editors)
• Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible
  • An in-depth overview of open access and how to make your own work openly
    accessible