Information about Open Access

• open-access.network: Information platform on Open Access which includes a page dedicated to OA in musicology (and other disciplines)
• Open Science in (digital) legal spaces by Open Science Network Austria (OANA)
• Recommended reading: Martin Paul Eve, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Searching for Open Access Publications

Please also see our collection of direct links to musicology on OA platforms!

• DOAJ: directory of quality-assured Open Access journals
• DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
• BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, mainly for Open Access publications
• musiconn.publish: repository for Open Access publications in musicology
• Radical Open Access: non-commercial ("diamond") OA publishers and journals
• AmeliCA: directory of "diamond" OA journals, mostly based in South and Central America, but expanding globally, and to OA books as well

For Editors

• Checklist for the Publication of Open Access Journals at Research Institutions by OANA
• journal editors should consider DOAJ's and AmeliCA's requirements for journal inclusion
• COPIM project offers inspiration for editors of books and "experimental" formats

Open Access Support

For advice, please turn to Max Bergmann:
Tel. +43-1-71155-8122

General questions
bergmann-max@mdw.ac.at

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