Where is open research?

Open research is everywhere! It is continually evolving, with new sites appearing regularly. It involves all areas and components of the research process, from preliminary data to books and other final research products.

Open Research Sources:

Research Data:

• Shared research data sites.
• U.S. Government and international open data sites.

Research Articles, Preprints and manuscripts:

• Journal article pre-prints and manuscript repositories by discipline.
• Journal articles in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
• PQDT Open dissertations and theses from Proquest.

Books:

1. Collections and books in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
2. Open Ebook Collections

Course content and textbooks:

1. Course content from the Open Courseware Consortium.
2. Textbooks from the College Open Textbooks project.

Standards from Open Standards.net.

For more information: Battle of the Opens, Dorothea Salo, Book of Trogool blog, March 15, 2010

Still need help?  The Libraries Scholarly Communications Officer, Elizabeth Brown, can assist you at (607) 777-4882.