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Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication: OA Books
This LibGuide provides useful information about the Open Access Movement, open access publishing and open scholarly communication trends.
Intro
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What is Open Access (Green Route)?
What is Open Access (Gold Route)?
Open Access Initiatives (incl. Developing Countries)
IFLA and eIFL and Open Access
OA Policies/Guidelines
The Public Domain
Benefits of Open Access
OA@Wits
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Wits Open Access Policy 2018
APC Fund for OA publications
Wits OA Brochure
Wits OA Information Sheet
Wits Author's Addendum
Open Access Events at Wits
Wits OA Week - Collaboration with other institutions
Wits Open Education Resources Strategy
International/Regional/Local Events
OA Books
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eBooks
OA Journals
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COVID 19 open resources (some temporary)
OA Libraries/IRs/ETDs
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Intro/Guidelines re: Digital Libraries/IRs
Finding OA ETDS & Repositories
Digital Libraries/ETDs/Scholarly Repositories
Digital Libraries/ETDs/Scholarly Repositories (South Africa)
Useful articles on repositories
Accredited Journals (incl.OA)
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Reputable Book Publishers
OA Media & Law
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Open Access Legislation
Vimeos on OA
OA / Royalty Free and other Music
OA Podcasts/Lectures
OA Blogs
How to Videos
OA Films/Videos/
OA Images
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Open access photographs
Open Data
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Open Science
Open Source
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Open Source LMS/Licensing/Authoring Tools
Creative Commons Open Licences
OERS
A2K
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A2K Websites, Wikis, Blogs, etc.
ICT Issues & A2K
Authors' Rights
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Wits Addendum to Publication Agreement
Self-Publishing
Licensing Open Content
Who Owns Your Works?
Copyright
Policies
OA & Scholarly Communication
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Enabling Scholarship & Research with Open Access
Copyright policies for IRs
OA Button
Open Research/Open Science
Open Innovation
Crisis in Scholarly Communication
Paying for OA
Reports/Handbooks on OA
Publishing Trends
Myths about Open Access Publishing
OA Publishers
Predatory Publishers
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Fake Conferences
Research Metrics
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Vimeos on Bibliometrics/Impact Factor
Altmetrics
Data Analysis Tools
Research Process
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Wits Library Services & Resources
Books in the Public Domain (no copyright protection) from 1 January 2019
Works in the Public Domain 2020
Publishers of OA Books
Open Book Publishers (OPB)
Publishers of OA books - OAD
De Gruyter OA Books
Springer Nature OA Books
Google Books
Emerald OA
Elsevier OA Books
List of Compliant Publishers (OAPEN)
Elsevier
Palgrave OA Books
OA University Presses
Athabasca University (only for non-commercial purposes)
eCommons@Cornell: Internet-First University Press
Wits University Press OA Books
Open Access Button (to find OA publications)
Open Access Button
Children's Storybooks (OA)
African Storybook
Open Access Books/Textbooks
6 Good Websites that provide Open Digital Textbooks for Teachers
200+ Free Modern Art Books from the Guggenheim Museum
1000 open textbooks (Ivypanda)
Bookboon
Cambridge University Press Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
FreeScience Books
Knowledge Unlatched Project
A landscape study on open access and monographs- Policies, funding and publishing in eight European countries (2017)
LibreTexts
Lyryx Learning - Open Textbooks
MDPI OA Books
The monograph should be the passport to mobile research success
OAPEN
OA Publishers (OAPEN Compliant list)
Open Culture - OA Books
Open Library (Internet Archive)
OpenStax
Open Textbook Library
Open Textbooks (WSU)
Open Textbooks and Catalogs (Univ. of Arkansas)
Open Text books by discipline (BC Campus)
Project Muse
SpringerNature OA Books
Textbook Revolution
Two Good Platforms That Provide Free Science Books
UK Open Textbooks
UNESCO OA Portal
WITS Libguides (Open Textbooks)
OA Books/Textbooks on Mathematics
DO NOT PUBLISH IN PREDATORY PUBLICATIONS
Predatory Publishers
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