It is an online service that presents publisher and journal open access policies from around the world. It covers over 5000 publishers and 22,000 journal titles for checking the publisher policy. Input the journal title or ISSN for a summary of the publisher policy.
Check the publishers’ policies:
(1) Go to Sherpa Romeo and enter journal title or ISSN in the search box
(2) Read the Publication Information section, and make sure you are consulting the correct journal
(3) In the Publisher Policy section, check the Open Access policies for the Publisher Version, Accepted Version and Submitted Version of the article. Click on the plus signs to expand the sections
(4) Be alert of the following sections: OA fee, embargo and location.
These sections tell you if you need to pay to make your work Open Access (OA fee), and if you have to wait a certain amount of time before you can make that version Open Access (Embargo) and where you can deposit the version once it is open access (Location)
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Open Access Scholarly Publishing Assocation (OASPA)
InCites journal citation reports (JCR) is sourced from Web of Science Core Collection. It provides the bibliometric information of the peer-review journals in different subject categories.
Users can find the open access journals with the following steps:
The Scopus Sources page allows users to browse a list of journals available on Scopus. Scopus includes only titles meet the technical criteria, which are accepted after review by an independent Content Selection Advisory Board.
Users can filter for open access journals with the following steps:
Depositing your work in an open access repository allows you to share research and get the credit. The following are some examples of OA repositories.
Authors should always check the publishers' policies on open access (self-archiving) and copyright and licensing restrictions before uploading the works.
Institutional repositories at HKU
HKU Scholars Hub is HKU's institutional repository which collects, preserves, and disseminates in digital form the intellectual output of HKU provides open access to items including HKU theses and postprints
Learn about Scholars Hub: LibGuide of Scholars Hub
It is the HKU's data repository. The cloud platform collects, preserves, and provides stable, long-term global open access to a wide range of research data created by HKU researchers and Research Postgraduate (RPg) students in the course of their research and teaching.
Learn about DataHub: LibGuide of DataHub
Global directory
OpenDOAR is a global directory of academic Open Access repositories and their policies. Users can identify, browse and search for repositories, based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.
Preprint servers
List of popular preprint servers
Find a preprint to deposit your preprint in subjects such as physics, math, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, and others.