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
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