In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued its policy memorandum, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.” The memo directed ...

Publisher open access (OA), also known as gold OA, for research papers is easy to understand: the final published version of a journal article is available to anyone with an internet connection, with ...

Traditional open access repositories are designed for sharing quantitative data. But what about qualitative data – non-numeric information and concepts such as case studies or interview transcripts?

This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

Open Access is academic publications that are free to read and often have various re-use rights utilizing Creative Commons licenses. Research can be Open Access through publishing or archiving. Open ...

Institutional Open Access repositories are tools for supporting, disseminating and showcasing the institution's educational and research outputs, as well as an alternative to the high cost of academic ...

Helda, the University’s digital repository, contains all the open access publications of the University of Helsinki. Helda contains peer-reviewed articles, dissertations, theses, books and publication ...