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An annual event which organizes and highlights Open Access events.

Open access refers to free access to online content. This can include databases, journals or books. Click on the icon below to learn more.

A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
Open Access Overview
Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints
Public Library of Science
PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
Open Access Directory
The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large
SPARC--Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
An international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.

Columbia University
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services have adopted open access policies.
Duke University
Duke is part of a growing and important movement toward a new mode of open access scholarly publication.
Harvard University
The Office for Scholarly Communication spearheads campus-wide initiatives to open, share, and preserve scholarship.
MIT
“The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible.”
University of Florida
The Institutional Repository at the University of Florida is the digital archive for the intellectual output of the University of Florida community, with research, news, outreach and educational materials.
University of North Florida
A digital representation of the research, scholarly output, and special collections of the University of North Florida community.