Scholarly Communication: OA & Your Discipline

"Open Humanities Press is an international, scholar-led open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought available worldwide. OHP is a network of interlacing thematic scholarly communities whose various, predominantly autonomous, editorial activities make up the OHP collective."

"This site aims to give the background to, and rationale for, our vision of building a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities."

"Digital Humanities Now is an experimental, edited publication that highlights and distributes informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web. Since 2009, DHNow has been refining processes of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review to open and extend conversations about the digital humanities research and practice."

DHQ is an open access, peer reviewed journal. "Digital humanities is a diverse and still emerging field that encompasses the practice of humanities research in and through information technology, and the exploration of how the humanities may evolve through their engagement with technology, media, and computational methods. DHQ seeks to provide a forum where practitioners, theorists, researchers, and teachers in this field can share their work with each other and with those from related disciplines."

The ODH works to support the increasingly digital, networked and collaborative projects and programs in the humanities.

"The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work."

"NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first."

"hprints is an Open Access repository for scholarly manuscripts from the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences openly available to the widest possible academic audience."

"Data.gov, the central site for U.S. Government data, is an important part of the Obama Administration's overall effort to open government." (For more Data & Statistics resources, please see our guide.)

"The Open Economics Working Group is run by the Open Knowledge Foundation in association with the Centre for Intellectual and Property Law (CIPIL) at the University of Cambridge. We want economics to be built on sound, transparent foundations, wherever possible. In particular, it is important that the data and associated analysis be openly available to all members of society."

"In Hawaiian mana'o means thoughts, ideas, knowledge, or opinions -- when making decisions together people often ask for each other's mana'o. The Mana’o collection is a project of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa which seeks to realize this ideal by combining anthropology's concern with openness and diversity with the scholarly ideal of open access."

"The Society for Cultural Anthropology, in March 2013, announced plans for Cultural Anthropology to become an open access journal. Starting with its February 2014 issue (volume 29, number 1), new issues of the journal became freely available online through the CA website, and plans are in the works to make back issues available as well. Cultural Anthropology is the first established, high-impact journal in anthropology to offer open access to its published research."

The Official Journal of the North Carolina Sociological Association; Peer-Reviewed,Refereed, Web-Based Publication."

"Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences."

Free access to a growing number of social science research; certified by the German Initiative for Network Information.

"PLOS (Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization founded to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication."

"PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."

Access to nearly a million pre-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

"BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 265 peer-reviewed open access journals."

A collection of both OA and subscription journal titles in mathematics and statistics.

"an international, peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes research articles on all aspects of organic chemistry."

"Our Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource."