LibGuides@Southampton: Ocean and Earth Science: Open Access Journals and Publications

Open Access Articles and Journals

There are a number of ways that journals are published which will determine if you can freely access the articles that they contain online:

All full text content only available to subscribers
A mixture of articles that can be accessed by anyone (Open Access) and those only available to subscribers (content for subscribers may have a closed padlock icon beside them)
All full text content available to anyone (Open Access)

Finding Open Access articles and journals

CORE is a not-for-profit service which provides access to the world’s largest collection of open access research papers, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals Search Core

To find journals that make all full text content available to anyone use the Directory of Open Access Journals – this listing covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

For journals that make some of the articles available to anyone - try going to the journal or publishers webpage and looking through the contents list to see which articles are available as to anyone as Open Access (these may have an open padlock icon beside them)

Example of a journal which makes the back issues freely available:

Journal of the MBA - Full-text of back issues 1887-1961

Old Series 1887-1888
Volume 1 (New Series) 1889-1890 to Volume 40 (New Series) 1961

Open access repositories for oceanography and earth science research literature and publications

Repositories have a key role to play, as they both enable open access, and help universities, colleges and other organisations manage the intellectual output of their researchers.

National Oceanography Centre and University of Southampton

ePrints Soton This link opens in a new window
ePrints Soton is a University of Southampton service which provides a growing database of research literature from the University
NORA This link opens in a new window
NERC Open Research Archive

Open access repositories of ocean and earth related research information

This list is not comprehensive and you may find repositories for other research centres, universities and organisations through an internet search. If you need any help with finding information please contact the library libenqs@soton.ac.uk

Agris
International information system for the agricultural sciences and technology. Argis is a global public domain database.
AquaDocs
Formerly called OceanDocs, this repository provides access to research and publications in Marine Science in digital form, including preprints, published articles, technical reports, working papers and more from the UNESCO/IOC International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC)
Archimer
Brage IMR
Institutional repository for the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) Norway
Brage NP
Institutional repository for the Norwegian Polar Institue
DOE PAGES
Department of Energy Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science. Access journal articles and accepted manuscripts resulting from DOE research funding
E-pic e-PIC - Publication Database of Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
German Research Centre for Geosciences - publications database Publication Database of GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
Hal UBO
Horizon IRD
OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources. This catalog was built through harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors.
OceanRep (GEOMAR) OceanRep is an open access digital collection containing the research output of GEOMAR staff and students. Included are journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, theses and more, - with full-text, if available.
OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is a global directory of Open Access repositories.
Plymsea Research output of the MBA is shared in open access format (where possible) through the institutional repository, Plymsea.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Serpent
This is an image and video footage database of marine species from sharks to sea squirts.
SIO eScholarship Repository SIO eScholarship Repository provides a central location for Scripps Institution of Oceanography personnel to deposit any research or scholarly output relevant to their research and scholarship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
WHOAS
Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community

Access to research from your public library

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