UPEI Resources

• IslandScholar - UPEI's open access institutional repository of faculty publications and graduate student theses/projects. 
• Open Access & Dissemination of Research Output Policy (Passed by UPEI Senate, February 2012)
• UPEI Open Textbooks Project and UPEI Texbook Working Group Interim Report 2014
• Open Access Researchers at UPEI - A list of researchers at UPEI who have published using the open access model

Funding Agency Policies

• Tri-Agency Open Access Policy Announcement (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC February 2015)
  • See the guide Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications: Quick answers! May 2015, from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries

Selected Resources on Open Access

• What is Open Access? -  PhD Comic Video
• Open Access: What's with  all the colors?  - the "Green" and "Gold" models of open access explained.
• OpCit Project - A wealth of information about the impacts of Open Access, including an up-to-date list and summary of research articles on the effect of open access and downloads on citation impact and related topics.
• Open Access Week 2010 (video) – a one-minute animated video developed by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and McGill Libraries to describe the concept of open access.
• Open Access Overview  by Peter Suber  
• JISC Scholarly Communications Action Handbook - addresses researchers' concerns and provides actions to encourage positive change.
• Grasping What Is Already Within Immediate Reach: Universal Open Access Mandates by Stevan Harnad, ACCESS 2009 Conference Presentation, Charlottetown PEI.
• Greater Reach for Your Research: Resources for Authors - this list of resources, compiled by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, includes the SPARC Canadian Author Addendum, Greater Reach for Your Research: Expanding Readership Through Digital Repositories and Create Change Canada.
• Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook - OASIS is a "sourcebook" on OA for researchers, librarians, publishers, administrators, students and the public. Resources include Briefing Papers, Guides and Overviews, Videos, and Presentations.
• Making Open Science a Reality  (pdf) -  OECD 2015
• Digital Scholarship Toolbox - CAUL/CBUA Scholarly Communications Committee
  • Evaluating Journals - contains tools and advice for evaluating journals both OA and subscription-based,  including how to identify predatory publishers
• ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Evaluating Journals - includes resources for identifying predatory publishers
• How to Assess a Journal - Canadian Association of Research Libraries
• Predatory Publishers - (Scholarly Communications, University of Ottawa) provides a checklist to critically evaluate a publisher's legitimacy