This guide highlights open access initiatives at the University of Northern Colorado as well as provides background information on the open access movement and resources.
Open Access Journals provide the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. The resources below are portals to open access, scholarly journals.
BioMed Central publishes 220 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals in STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) disciplines. BioMed Central is owned by Springer Science+ Business Media.
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is an open access megajournal, publishing the most open access articles in 2020. MDPI publishes nearly 500 individual titles.
PLOS (Public Library of Science), a nonprofit organization, publishes peer-reviewed journals in science and medicine. PLOS ONE has an efficient, innovative peer-review process that results in the publication of all technically sound papers.
Sage Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal that publishes original research and review articles in an open access format. Accepted articles span the full extent of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
