Open Access
The UGA Libraries support the Open Access movement. Rising journal prices coupled with decreasing budgets necessitate changes in publishing methods. The Open Access movement leads the way in providing research in a timely fashion at minimal charge, allowing for quick dissemination of important research findings. The scientific community in particular has led the way in providing up-to-date scholarly research in the Open Access environment.
Open Access Organizations
Create Change is an organization dedicated to promoting the equitable dissemination of scholarly research.
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. As well as simply listing repositories, OpenDOAR provides tools and support to both repository administrators and service providers in sharing best practice and providing tools to improve the quality of the repository infrastructure.
SPARC is the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition formed through the Association of Research Libraries as a way to address the escalating prices of journals.
Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science movement is led by publishers in the science and medical fields.
Open Access Resources
AGRICOLA is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library.
AgZines: "a harvest of free agricultural journals."
arXiv.org: Listing of Open Access articles in Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, and Quantitative Biology.
BioOne indexes articles in the Bioscience arena.
The Directory of Open Access Journals provides a listing of journals that participate in the Open Access Movement. The journals are arranged both alphabetically and topically.
Free Medical Journals provides a listing of over 1300 freely available journals in the medical field.
HighWire Press hosts the largest on-line repository of life science, peer-reviewed articles from high profile journals.
The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications offers a listing of freely available on-line journals.
The Open Directory Project provides a listing of freely available journals on the Worldwide Web.
Lehigh University's list of resources pertaining to the Open Access movement.
The Public Library of Science contains Open Access works in the biological sciences on "all aspects of biology from molecules to ecosystems".
