Services and Resources for Graduate Students: Open Access

A global directory of Open Access repositories and their policies

Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages. The directory is indexed in JCU Worldcat.

"OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe."

OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world

European portal for accessing electronic theses and dissertations from European academic institutions.

CORE aggregates all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.

You can use the web interface or internet browser plugin to search for a freely available version of a particular article.

Web browser extension that you can install quickly and easily from their website. Once installed, a padlock will appear in your browser screen when you land on the page of a scholarly article with a DOI. If the work is openly accessible, the padlock will turn green - all you have to do is click and you will be redirected to the OA version of the item you are interested in.

Free browser extension that has been developed by CORE, a not-for-profit service delivered by The Open University and Jisc, aimed to aggregate open access research papers from around the world.

Open Access Helper is designed to help you get easy & legal access to Open Access versions of otherwise “paywalled” scientific articles. Whenever the extensions comes across a DOI, it will query the APIs of unpaywall.org & core.ac.uk to see if an Open Access copy is available elsewhere and clearly indicate this for easy and quick access.
Open Access Helper can be downloaded on Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, and it is also available for iPhone and iPad.
Open Access Helper offers:

Open Access copies via unpaywall.org and/or core.ac.uk APIs

Times Cited counts via opencitations.net

For users who self identified their institution, it will additionally offer:

Reloading of the current page via the institution's EZProxy server


Linking to the library's link resolver or Inter Library Loan form