Open Access

• CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States)

  Public-private partnership of publishers, associations and others to increase public access to peer-reviewed publications that report on federally funded research. Utilizes current and developing discoverability tools (such as CrossRef, FundRef and ORCID).
• SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)

  Joint initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).

Open Access and Institutional Repositories with EPrints. ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies). 2008-.

Open Access is free online access to scholarly materials without restrictions.

Use SHERPA/RoMEO to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement. Enter the name of a journal to determine if archiving in a repository is allowed.