Discovery of Scholarly Open Access Content: Tools for Finding Open Scholarship
Overview of OA Discovery Tools
Open access discovery tools facilitate finding open versions of content by searching across multiple repositories and web sites where open content is collected. These tools are need to help unite varying metadata used to identify open versions.
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Perspectives on the open access discovery landscapeFrom Jisc, by Andrea Chiarelli and Rob Johnson, posted by Sarah Fahmy
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Open Access Finding ToolsArticle outlining a recent assessment of tools used to discover scholarly open access content.
Readily Available Tools
A mechanism for searching across multiple open access content sites. Specifically, these are: Unpaywall, Share, CORE, OpenAIRE, Dissem.in, Europe PMC, BASE
This tool can also be searched at the home page using: DOI, URL, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID, Title and can also be used as a browser extension with Chrome, Firefox and as an OpenAPI
A mechanism for searching across content repository sites. Specifically, these are: Crossref, DOAJ, Gold OA & Hybrid Journals, Institutional Repositories, Disciplinary Repositories
This tool can also be searched at the home page using: DOI or a set of DOIs and can also be used as a browser extension with Chrome, Firefox and as an OpenAPI
Paywalled Tools to Use
A purchased tool supplied as part of the PSU LIbrary's Web of Science subscription. This resource searches across the Web of Science database, PubMed, and other web sites and can be used as a browser extension in Chrome. It can discover content paid for by the PSU Library as well as open access versions available.