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����Open Access �to Scientific� and �Medical Resources����

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  • Open Access (OA) refers to all electronic resources that are made widely available on the internet without licensing and copyright restrictions.
  • Open Access resources can include articles, journals, books, conference proceedings, theses, videos, music, etc

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Definition of open access

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  • Authors benefit from Open Access because of increased audience and also increased visibility and impact of their work.

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  • Users, as they get free access to literature they need for their research. It increases their convenience, reach and retrieval part.

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  • Teachers and students are greatly benefited as Open Access enables every one an equal access to the key resources and eliminates the need for permission to reproduce and distribute content

Benefits of Open Access

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Improved Education�Open Access means that teachers and their students have access to the latest research finding throughout the world. 

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Broader Picture

  • Strong research capacity needed for economic growth of a country
  • Strong science base important for development
  • Open access can contribute towards this

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  1. Green Road of ( OA)
  2. Self archiving : to archive on an article on personal Website,blog,university Web page or
  3. In an institutional repository or disciplinary repository

2. Gold Road of (OA)

  • OA journals : online publishing

2 Types of (OA)

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Examples of open access resources

fordham.libguides.com/ElectronicResources/OpenAccess

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Directory of Open Access Journal

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(DOAJ)

  • The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA).  It was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals.  The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals making all their content available for free, without delay or user-registration requirement, and meeting high quality standards, notably by exercising peer review or editorial quality control.

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  • As of December 2022, the independent database contains more than 18,650 open access journals and 8,265,272 articles covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and the humanities ( wekipedia.org ).

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Google Dataset

Google Dataset Search is a version of Google’s search engine that can specifically be used to search for Datasets in fields such as learning, social sciences, government data, life sciences, etc. from all over the world.

According to Google, their Dataset Search has indexed around 25 million Datasets and you can access them all to obtain useful data. data that completely free some may require one time payment or membership. You can filter the free result

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Google Dataset

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Google Dataset

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Google Dataset

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Google Dataset

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Hinari

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2022 Springer Nature fully open access journals

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��https://openscience.bmj.com/�

BMJ journals

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Useful URL database

  • PubMed Central
  • a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
  • HighWire
  • HighWire Press archive of free full-text science
  • TRIP database
  • Great place to get the cream of the evidence – searches a limited number of high quality sources

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