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Scholarly Communications at Mount Sinai: What is Open Access?
Information for the Mount Sinai community on issues related to scholarly communications, including author rights and copyright, research evaluation, open access, and NIH publication support
Unrestricted Access to Scholarly Output
What is 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." - SPARC
Benefits of Open Access
- Widest possible audience for your research: maximize your impact
- Author Rights: retain the rights to reuse and distribute your research.
- Unrestricted access benefits everyone: no paywalls to scholarly research
- Accelerates the rate of scientific discovery
Related Resources
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BioMedCentralOpen access journal publisher. All Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai authors receive a discount on publishing fee with BioMed Central.
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PubMed Central (PMC)Free archive of biomedicine and life science journal articles. From the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a division of the NIH.
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Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)Search for open access content. Over 2,400 repositories and a responsive search interface automatically mapping to 21 languages.
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Directory of Open Access BooksThe Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for Open Access monographs. DOAB provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.
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Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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Directory of Open Access Repositories Open DOAROpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of over 2,200 academic open access repositories.
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Registry of Open Access Repositories ROARThe aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Over 3,300 repositories listed.
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SPARC Author AddendumSecure your rights as the author of a journal article.