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Open Access Journals and Publishers
- BioMed Central: BioMed Central Ltd. is an independent publisher in London, England, that provides free access to biomedical research publications. These publications include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. BioMed Central also offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology.
- International Association for Media and Communication Research OA journal list :This website lists open access journals in the field of media and communications research.
- Open Humanities Press: An international, scholar-led open access publishing collective whose stated mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought available worldwide. The OHP network includes several openly accessible book series, as well as a selective list of autonomously-produced open access journals in critical and cultural theory.
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PeerJ : An off-shoot of PLoS, PeerJ is a new open access journal in the biological and medical sciences. PeerJ operates under a unique publishing fee model, which includes lifetime membership options.
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PLoS (Public Library of Science): PLoS publishes several well-established open access, peer-reviewed journals covering disciplines in the sciences including PLOS Biology, PLOS One, and PLOS Pathogens.
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Royal Society Open Science: An open access, peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society publishing groups covering the sciences and mathematics.
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Sage Open: A peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an open access format. Coverage includes the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
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Wiley Open Access: A list of this publisher's open access journals in various disciplines.
Publishers of OA books
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Fund to Mission at the University of Michigan Press: The Press aims to convert at least 75% of its monographs to open access by the end of 2023, without any author ever having to pay. The Press is working to build a sustainable model by achieving stable funding for this monograph program from three sources: annual funding from the library community, recurring funds from the U-M Provost, and other funder payments.
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Luminos Open Access at the University of California Press: At UC Press, open access is central to our mission of giving voice, reach, and impact to bright minds and bold ideas. Our Luminos program offers open access publishing for monographs, with the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as for our traditional books program. It's a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared between the author, publisher, institutions, and libraries.
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Knowledge Unlatched: Knowledge Unlatched works with libraries and academic publishers to make selected books openly accessible. The model depends on libraries contributing to cover a publisher's costs on a book; when the cost-recovery goal is met, the book becomes open access. Knowledge Unlatched encourages authors to discuss this option with their publishers. See "How can I get my book published through Knowledge Unlatched?"
- OAPEN: A European-based database that focuses on open access books in the humanities and social sciences.
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