Research Data at Auburn University: Open Access

Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.

The SPARC site has a good discussion of Open Access at the link above.

Open Data...mean[s] research data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.

The SPARC site also has a good discussion of Open Data.

Lists of Repositories

Registry of Open Access Repositories  International list of online repositories of scholarly information.

OpenDOAR

The primary source researchers should use for identifying quality open access journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ.

However, if a journal of interest is not listed in the DOAJ, you may wish to consult the Scholarly Open Access site  to determine if the journal would still of interest to you.

Using both of these databases together will help the researcher identify quality journals and avoid other journals.

SHERPA/RoMEO explains publisher copyright policies and what you need to do to keep your copyright so you can deposit a copy of your paper in AUrora.