Disseminate Your Work Using Open Access Platforms

Open access repositories provide free, online access to scholarly materials while open access publishing platforms, such as UC’s eScholarship, provide a range of publishing and dissemination services to targeted groups of authors, such as faculty members or academic departments associated with a specific institution. Some open access repositories and publishing platforms accept multiple types of scholarly materials, including pre-publication materials, journals and peer-reviewed series, seminar series papers, post-prints, and more.

Learn more about the characteristics of alternative scholarly publishing options and your opportunities for participation.

UC's eScholarship:

In addition to providing an institutional repository for the dissemination of previously published materials (postprints) written by UC-associated scholars, eScholarship also supports the open access digital publication of original scholarly work produced by UC departments, research units, and publishing programs. These original publications include journals, book series, paper series, conference proceedings, and more.

Disciplinary Repositories:

Disciplinary repositories function as a resource for the centralized collection and dissemination of research within specific fields.

• CogPrints: An electronic self-archive for papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology, and areas in the physical, social, and mathematical sciences that relate to the study of cognition. Developed by the University of Southampton, England.
• ArXiv: For physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Operated by Cornell University.
• PubMed Central: A digital archive of life sciences journal literature deposited by publishers. Developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

For a more complete list, see the Open Access Directory