Welcome to the Open Access Directory (OAD), a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD will make it easier for users, especially newcomers, to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA.

The goal is for the OA community itself to enlarge and correct the lists with little intervention from the editors or editorial board. For quality control, we limit editing privileges to registered users. We welcome your contributions to our lists, ideas for new lists, and comments to help us improve OAD. Please contact us or use the discussion tab. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College hosts this wiki.

Thank you for visiting during our launch,

Peter Suber (co-founder), Robin Peek (co-founder), Terry Plum, Athanasia Pontika, Charles Bailey, Leslie Chan, Melissa Hagemann, Heather Joseph, Alma Swan, John Wilbanks

Try this in Google Scholar

1. Go to Google Scholar
2. Click Advanced Search
3. Search for F. Password in the author field
4. Check out the results.

For more info on Google Scholar, check out this page created by UT Libraries' Life Sciences Librarian.

Citing the growing demand from the public and the scientific community for access to research data, The Rockefeller University Press has revised its copyright policy to allow authors to retain the rights to work published in its three journals. The policy, which became effective May 1, applies to all three Rockefeller University Press journals: The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and The Journal of General Physiology.

The new policy allows authors to reuse their published work in any way and provides for third-party reuse under the terms of a Creative Commons license, say Mike Rossner, executive director of the press, and Emma Hill, executive editor of The Journal of Cell Biology. Hill and Rossner lay out the terms of the new policy in an editorial published in the May issues of all three journals.

Under the terms of the policy, authors may reuse their published work for any purpose, including commercial profit, as long as each use includes attribution to the original publication. Third parties can reuse and redistribute work published in Rockefeller University Press journals, without permission, for any noncommercial purpose, with the same requirement for attribution that applies to authors.

The new policy breaks with common practice among scientific publishers, the vast majority of which require authors to relinquish copyright to the publisher in full as a condition of publication. The press, which now retains licenses from its authors instead of copyright, made its first move toward policy reversal in July 2000, when it gave authors the right to post their articles on their own Web sites immediately after publication. Since January, 2001, the press has released all of its content to the public six months after publication, but permission was still required for any reuse beyond self-archiving.

"Our copyright and public-access policies simply acknowledge who did the work and who paid for it to be done," says Rossner. "Clearly, the peer-review and publication processes add value to the work, but, in our opinion, that does not give the publisher an exclusive right to it."

The terms of the new policy stipulate additional provisions designed to achieve a balance between granting wide access to content and preserving revenue for the press. The press prohibits the creation of mirror Web sites within the first six months after publication, in order to retain essential revenue derived from journal subscriptions. After six months, articles are open to reuse under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License from Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers tools for the creation of "some rights reserved" copyrights. The press retains purview -- along with authors -- over commercial reuse.

The new policy, which was drafted with the assistance of the university's Office of General Counsel, also applies retroactively. Authors who assigned copyright for past work to The Rockefeller University Press are now granted the right to use the work in any way. All work published prior to November 1, 2007 is subject to the Creative Commons license, and all work published since then is subject to the six-month restriction on mirror sites.

The Rockefeller University Press, founded in 1905, is a nonprofit publisher whose journals are edited by active scientists. The press places a strong emphasis on preserving the integrity of primary research data and has garnered international attention as a pioneer in the application of new technologies to achieve that goal. All of the content of the three press journals is also posted on PubMed Central, the online database of scientific articles run by the National Library of Medicine, where it is available to the public six months after publication.

Journal of Cell Biology online: April 30, 2008

Geology, Biology, Botany, Zoology

Math, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry

Anatomy, Physiology, Microbiology

Medicine

Engineering/Technology

Biology Research Guides

General Biology
--includes Databases, Encyclopedias/Dictionaries, Images, Citation Analysis, Field Guides, Writing & Presenting Science, Style Guides, Guides to the Literature

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
--includes Databases, Encyclopedias/Dictionaries, Methods & Techniques, Identification Manuals.

Microbiology
--includes Databases, Encyclopedias/Dictionaries, Methods & Techniques, Classification/Systematics & Nomenclature.

Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
--includes Databases, Encyclopedias/Dictionaries, Methods & Techniques, Handbooks.

Print & Historical Biological Sources
--includes print equivalents of databases (for locating articles prior to database coverage), Bibliographies, Catalogues.

Hot Topics in Biology
--includes sources that would be helpful for non-science majors writing papers or doing projects on hot topics in science.

Not sure where to start? Contact the Life Sciences Librarian.
Donna Braquet can be reached at dbraquet@utk.edu, phone 974-0016 or mail Donna Braquet, Hodges Library, Research Services & Collections.

While Audubon was creating Birds of America, he was also working on a companion publication, namely, his Ornithological Biography. Both of these sets were acquired by William M. Darlington in the mid-nineteenth century and later donated, as part of his extensive library, to the University of Pittsburgh. Recognizing that the Darlington Library includes significant historical materials, such as rare books, maps, atlases, illustrations, and manuscripts, the ULS charted an ambitious course to digitize a large portion of Mr. Darlington's collection, including the Birds of America.

We are pleased to present our complete double elephant folio set of Audubon's Birds of America, accompanied by his Ornithological Biography, through this Web site. Together these sets comprise an unprecedented online combination.

The Environmental Film Series will take place each Wednesday at 7pm in Alumni Memorial Building Room 27. The series, hosted by the Film Committee and SPEAK will present four environmental films. For more information email hernest@utk.edu

For more Earth Month Events>>

We are currently experiencing an outage of service with online titles from Blackwell. We are working with the publisher to have these restored ASAP. Thank you for your patience.

UT Science Librarians

Read more and send your comments>>

Apr 03 2008
Introduction to EndNote Web (60 min)
Time: Los Angeles 11:00 * Philadelphia 14:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 10 2008
Introduction to EndNote Web (60 min)
Time: Los Angeles 11:00 * New York 14:00
Enroll Now!

ISI Web of Knowledge

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mar 27 2008
Introduction to the New Web of Knowledge (60 min)
Time: Los Angeles 11:00 * New York 14:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 01 2008
Introduction to Researcher ID (60 min)
Time: New York 10:00 * London 15:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 02 2008
Introduction to Researcher ID (60 min)
Time: Los Angeles 11:00 * New York 14:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 03 2008
Introduction to Researcher ID (60 min)
Time: New York 10:00 * London 15:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 09 2008
Introduction to Researcher ID (60 min)
Time: Los Angeles 11:00 * New York 14:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 14 2008
Introduction to Researcher ID (60 min)
Time: New York 10:00 * London 15:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 23 2008
Introduction to the New Web of Knowledge (60 min)
Time: New York 10:00 * London 15:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 24 2008
Introduction to the New Web of Knowledge (60 min)
Time: New York 10:00 * London 15:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 24 2008
Introduction to the New Web of Knowledge (60 min)
Time: Los Angeles 11:00 * New York 14:00
Enroll Now!

ISI Web of Science

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apr 02 2008
Web of Science 1: General Search and Navigation (60 Min)

Time: New York 10:00 * London 15:00
Enroll Now!

Apr 09 2008
Web of Science 2: Cited Reference Searching (60 min)
Time: Philadelphia 11:00 * London 16:00
Register Now!

Apr 18 2008
Web of Science: Citation Reporting and the H-Index (60 min)
Time: New York 10:00 * London 15:00
Enroll now!

Apr 22 2008
Web of Science: Citation Reporting and the H-Index (60 min)
Time: New York 10:00 * London 15:00
Enroll now!

Apr 22 2008
Web of Science 1: General Search and Navigation (60 min)

Time: Los Angeles 12:00 * New York 15:00
Register Now!