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D. Becker
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Open access - definitions
 Resources that are openly available to users with no
requirements for authentication or payment.
www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib/MS1999/Glossary.html
 a model for journal publishing in which authors make their
content freely available and archive it themselves. Costs of
publishing are borne by authors or their funders
www.foodinfoquest.com/glossary
 A publication model where in neither readers nor a reader's
institution are charged for access to articles or other
resources. Users are free to read, download, copy,
distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these
articles. ...
www.loc.gov/acq/conser/glossary.html
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Levels of open access
 Read online
 Download
 Download and distribute
 Some items are open access only for short periods of
time before having access restricted
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Books
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http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/
http://www.oapen.org/xtf/home?brand=oapen
http://www.library4science.com/
http://www.intechopen.com/books/
http://oreilly.com/openbook/
http://ocw.unu.edu/
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/unupbksalm.html
 http://www.questia.com/publicdomainindex
 http://www.archive.org/details/universallibrary
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Journals
 http://www.doaj.org/
 http://www.openj-gate.com/Search/QuickSearch.aspx
Accredited open access journal (SA)
 http://www.ais.up.ac.za/aoajsa.htm
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Texbooks/Courseware
 http://www.4icu.org/opencourseware/
 http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/
 http://www.textbooksfree.org/
 http://www.textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_
Page
 http://www.oercommons.org/courses/material_types/
textbooks?gclid=CO-w56fzrqQCFdj92AodUXeoyw
 http://ocw.unu.edu/ocw/Courses_listing
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Video
 http://www.learnerstv.com/
 http://www.openculture.com/intelligentvideo
 Textbooks
 Language courses
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Repository –definition
 A repository in publishing, and especially in academic
publishing, is a real or virtual facility for the deposit of
academic publications, such as academic journal
articles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_(publishing)
 a permanent, not-for-profit education or researchoriented agency or institution that provides inperpetuity legal housing and curation of records and
material collections. ...
www.txarch.org/archeology/glossary/index.html
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Traditional repository
services
Restricted to the output of a single
institution
A digital product to enable perpetual
access through digital preservation
Access that would be not restricted
(not necessarily Open Access)
All intellectual output, irrespective of
the type
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Types of repositories
Open Access
Scholarius repository for PhD Thesis,
Articles, Books and Reports
Covers many subject areas
European portals with English text
Netherland
Scandinavia
Institutional repositories
All repositories
 http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/institutions.html
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Journals
 http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/journals.html
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Digital library - definition
 A digital library is a library in which collections are stored
in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other
media) and accessible by computers. The digital content
may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer
networks. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library
 A digital library is a collection of documents in organized
electronic form, available on the Internet or on CD-ROM
(compact-disk read-only memory) disks. Depending on the
specific library, a user may be able to access magazine
articles, books, papers, images, sound files, and videos. ...
www.netaonline.org/pd-digitalglossary.rtf
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Beyond traditional repository
services
 Individual websites for
CPUT staff members
 Image galleries for archival
and current images
 Publication of e-journals and
Conference proceedings
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