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18.10.2019 Education, Events, Research

What is Open Access (OA)? 

Open access means that research results are made freely accessible in digital form, which promotes the dissemination of research results both within the scientific community and to the public at large. The reader can read free of charge, use, copy, print, and link the OA publications.   

Read more about Open access in the Libguide (External link) for OA.

 

Arcada Library recommends: 

DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)  (External link)

DOAB contains 21352 Academic peer-reviewed books and chapters from 321 publishers 

More about DOAB (External link)

 

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) (External link)

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 40% of which comes from sponsors (External link) and 60% from members and publisher members (External link). All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available. 

DOAJ contains 13,817 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities. 

More about DOAJ (External link)

 

OATD (Open Access Theses and Dissertations) (External link)

Theses and dissertations, free to find, free to use. 

OATD.org is a resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions (External link). OATD currently indexes 5,069,860 (External link)theses and dissertations. 

More about OATD (External link)

Biblioteket

Bibliotekets informatiker bloggar om vad som är på gång i Arcadas bibliotek och ger tips om e-material som du kan nå när du vill där du är just nu. Here the library staff blogs about what's going on in the Arcada library and gives you tips on e-material you can access anytime and anywhere.

E-mail: biblioteket@arcada.fi

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