Research & Publishing

All Services

Stanford Weighs In

OA Articles by Stanford authors (PubMed search)
Vantage Point (Patrick Brown, PLoS co-founder)
Vantage Point (Donald Kennedy, Science editor-in-chief)
C-Lib Exec Summary (Crisis in Scholarly Publishing)
Keeping the Scholars in Scholarly Publishing (Michael Keller, HighWire Press)
At What Cost? (Michael Keller in Stanford Magazine)
Prof Wants Research Online (Pat Brown in Stanford Daily)

Open Access

Keeping Current

NIH Open Access Law National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Law

Each author's choice of where to publish adds another brick to a complex publishing structure. Your choice may have a dramatic effect on how accessible, or inaccessible, your research is. Your decision can limit or facilitate others' digital access to significant research. Familiarizing yourself with the raging controversy over the new Open Access publishing model will help you make informed decisions about the impact of your choice on where to publish—on your professional standing, on library budgets, and ultimately on scholarship itself.

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Key Initiatives

PLoS (Public Library of Science)
Biomed Central ("The Open Access Publisher")
PubMed Central (NLM's free archive of life sciences journals)
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition)
ACRL (Scholarly Communication - Association of College & Research Libraries)

More Resources

SHERPA (Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving)
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Selected Bibliography (ca. 100 citations)
Published Bibliography (ca. 1,300 citations)
PubMed Search (on open access)

Research & Publishing

Stanford Weighs In

Open Access

Open Access

Publishing Models

Citations & Impact

Keeping Current

Key Initiatives

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