Open Access Resources
The Open Access publishing movement provides free access to online content.
- Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that was formed to offer flexible copyright options for publishing creative work electronically over the Internet. It enables authors and artists to share and publish their work, and build upon others' works. Australia is a signatory to this International project.
- Health Education Assets Library - HEAL
Finding Tools
- Austin Health Eprints Repository - online
archive of Austin Health research
- Australian Digital Theses program
A distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian and New Zealand universities.
- Directory of Open Access Journals
This is a listing of open access journals that do not charge individuals or institutions for access and use, including downloading, distributing, printing and linking.
- Free Medical Journals
This site lists free medical journals and the conditions under which publications become available, such as time frame.
- Free Online Journals at Highwire Press
This lists journals with full text available freely, and any embargoes on access.
- OAIster Project
When you search in OAIster, you are searching institutional repositories. The goal of the OAIster Project is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.
- Public Library of Science
PLoS is a "nonprofit organisation of scientists and physicians committee to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource." PLoS publishes its own peer-reviewed, open access journals.
- PubMed Central
PMC is the US National Institute of Health's "publicly-accessible, permanent, and searchable electronic archive" and covers life sciences journals.
