Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)

Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) works to encourage and enable open access as the predominant model of communication for scholarly outputs. OASPA committed for developing and disseminating solutions that advance open access and ensure a diverse, vibrant, and healthy open access community.

Members

Professional Publisher (Small)

• AboutScience Srl
• Academic Studies Press
• African Minds
• Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
• American Physiological Society
• Beilstein-Institut
• Business Perspectives
• Cogitatio
• Compuscript Ltd
• CSIC Press
• ecancermedicalscience
• EMBO Press
• European Publishing
• F1000Research
• HBKU Press (Formerly Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals)
• Hipatia Press
• Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal of Health and Pollution
• Knowledge E
• Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
• Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information / PsychOpen
• Life Science Alliance
• Linguistic Society of America
• National Centre for Social Research / EKKE
• Now Publishers Inc.
• Ogarev Mordovia State University
• Oikos Editorial Office
• Open Book Publishers
• Open Library of Humanities
• PAGEPRESS Publications
• Pensoft Publishers Ltd.
• Polish Botanical Society
• protocols.io
• punctum books
• Royal College of General Practitioners
• RTI Press
• School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews
• Stockholm University Press
• Swansea University
• Ubiquity Press
• UCL Press
• Universitätsverlag Göttingen
• University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
• University of Huddersfield Press
• University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
• UTS ePRESS
• Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press “Technika”

Professional Publisher (Medium)

• AOSIS
• Baishideng Publishing Group Inc
• Copernicus Publications
• eLife
• IntechOpen
• IWA Publishing
• JMIR Publications Inc. (formerly JMIR – Journal of Medical Internet Research)
• Karger Publishers
• Microbiology Society
• PeerJ
• Portland Press Limited
• The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery

Professional Publisher (Large)

• AIP Publishing
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS
• American Physical Society
• American Society for Microbiology
• BMJ
• BRILL
• Cappelen Damm Akademisk, Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing
• De Gruyter
• EDP Sciences
• Emerald Publishing
• Frontiers
• Hindawi
• IOP Publishing Ltd
• MDPI AG
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget
• The Company of Biologists
• The Royal Society

Professional Publisher (Very Large)

• Cambridge University Press
• Oxford University Press
• SAGE Publications
• Springer Nature
• Taylor & Francis
• Thieme Group
• Wiley

Scholar Publisher

• Alliance of Diamond Open Access Journals
• Anti-Trafficking Review
• Ariadna ediciones
• Australian Population Studies
• Baghdad Science Journal
• Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology
• Biotechnology, Agronomy, Society and Environment (BASE)
• Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (CPC-EM)
• Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics
• e-conservation Journal
• E-JournALL, EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages
• Emerging Science Journal
• Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues
• folklor/edebiyat
• Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale (Fracture and Structural Integrity)
• Fundamental and Applied Agriculture
• Iberoamerican Journal of Medicine
• Icelandic Review of Politics and Administration, IRPA
• Ideas in Ecology & Evolution
• International Journal of Basic Science in Medicine
• International Journal of Enteric Pathogens
• International Journal of Physiotherapy
• ITcon, Journal of Information Technology in Construction
• Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal Research
• Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
• Journal of e-Democracy and Open Government (JeDEM)
• Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine
• Journal of Language Modelling
• Journal of Mountain Area Research
• Journal of Nepal Medical Association
• Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society
• Journal of Nobel Medical College
• Journal18
• Language Under Discussion
• LIBER Quarterly
• Management & Economics Research Journal
• mediastudies.press
• Mutual Images
• Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• PAMJ, The Pan African Medical Journal
• Pathogens and Immunity
• Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
• Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments
• Quanta
• Res Rhetorica
• ReScience
• Research in Applied Business and Economics
• Research in Corpus Linguistics
• Research Journal of Pharmacognosy
• Scientia Medica
• Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health
• The Fibreculture Journal
• The Quantitative Methods for Psychology
• The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections
• Vojnotehnicki glasnik / Military Technical Courier
• Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health (WestJEM)

Supporting Services and Infrastructure (Non-Commercial)

• BioOne
• California Digital Library
• CERN Scientific Information Service (The European Organization for Nuclear Research)
• CLOCKSS Archive
• Coko
• CrossRef
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• DOAB Foundation
• Dryad
• Edinburgh University Library
• ISSN International Centre
• Jisc
• KB – National library of the Netherlands
• KU Research
• Lund University Libraries
• National Documentation Center / NHRF
• OAPEN Foundation
• Portico
• Public Knowledge Project
• SciELO
• Stichting Fair Open Access Alliance
• The Free Ebook Foundation
• UiT The Arctic University of Norway / Septentrio Academic Publishing
• Utrecht University Library (Uopen Journals)
• VU University Library Amsterdam

Supporting Services and Infrastructure (Commercial)

• Aries Systems Corporation
• Copyright Clearance Center
• Delta Think
• Highwire
• Knowledge Unlatched
• Scholastica
• ScienceOpen
• The Charlesworth Group

Journal Finder Tools

 DOAJ

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)

Enago’s Open Access Journal Finder(OAJF)

Scopus Journal Analyzer

Elsevier Journal Finder

Springer Journal Suggester

Wiley’s Journal Finder Beta

Manuscript matcher

Open Journal Matcher

IEEE Publication Recommender

JANE

FindMyJournal

Clarivate Master Journal List

Metadata Harvesting Services

 Harvesting refers to the activity of searching and collecting metadata from Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Institutional Repositories and OAI journals whose content is indexed and posted for open use from a World Wide Web server. A metadata harvesting service harvests or indexes metadata from open access initiative (OAI) compliant archives or repositories or journals through harvesting software that supports a protocol known as the Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

1 Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.in/

 2 OaISTER: http://www.oclc.org/oaister

 3 OARiNZ: http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/mi/project/te-panetakiao/resources/pages/open-access-repositories-nzoarinz

 4 NCSTRL: http://www.ncstrl.org/

 Indian Initiatives

5 Search Digital Libraries: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/sdl

6 MetaMED: http://indmeddb.nic.in/metamed.html

7 Open Index Initiative: http://oii.igidr.ac.in

Open Courseware

 Open Courseware is the name given to open educational resources that are presented in course format, often including course planning materials, such as syllabi and course calendars, along with content, such as textbooks, lectures, presentations, notes and simulations.

1 Open Yale Courseware: http://oyc.yale.edu/

 2 MIT Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/

 3 U-Now: http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/

 4 Open Courseware Consortium: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

 5 Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/

 6 Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/

 Indian Initiatives

1 ePG Pathshala: http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/

 2 NPTEL: www.nptel.iitm.ac.in

 3 e-Gyankosh: www.egyankosh.ac.in

 4 Learning Object Repository CEC: www.cec-lor.edu.in

Electronic Books

An Ebook is an electronic version of a printed book which can be read on a computer or a specifically designed handheld device.

1 Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/

 2 HathiTrust Digital Library: http://www.hathitrust.org/

3 OAPEN: http://www.oapen.org

Indian Initiatives

4 Digital Library of India: http://www.dli.ernet.in/

5 Directory of Open Access Books: http://www.doabooks.org/

Institutional Repositories (IR)

 Institutional repositories are a institution-based digital-asset management system. It is a cost-effective and immediate route to provide access to scholarly literature such as research papers and electronic versions of documents, theses and dissertations as well as digital assets generated by an institution such as annual reports, course notes, or learning objects, etc. There are total 3594 world-wide repositories indexed by Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) which includes 99 repositories in India. Directory of Open Access Repositories has indexed total 2500 world-wide repositories, including 62 Indian repositories.

1 Arxiv.org e-Print Archive: http://arxiv.org/

 2 Social Science Research Network: http://ssrn.com/en/

 3 Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/

 4 Europe PubMed Central: http://europepmc.org/

 5 Research Papers in Economics: http://repec.org/

 6 CiteSeerX: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index

 7 HAL Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique Archive Ouverte: http://hal.inria.fr/

 8 University of California eScholarship Repository: http://escholarship.org/

 9 CERN Document Server: http://cds.cern.ch/

 10 Virginia Tech University Digital Library and Archives: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ Indian Initiatives

 11 Open Access Repository Publications of Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences: http://repository.ias.ac.in/

 12 Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Institutional Repository: http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/

 13 Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Institutional Repository: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/

 14 National Institute of Oceanography India Digital Repository: http://drs.nio.org/drs/index.jsp

 15 Information and Library Network Centre Institutional Repository: http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/

 16 National Institute of Technology Rourkela eThesis: http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in/

 17 OpenMed National Informatics Centre India: http://openmed.nic.in/

 18 International Crops Research Institute for the SemiArid Tropics Open Access Repository: http://oar.icrisat.org/

 19 Indian Institute of Astrophysics Institutional Repository: http://prints.iiap.res.in/

 20 National Aerospace Laboratories Institutional Repository: http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/

Source: http://repositories.webometrics.info/

Open Access Journals

1 BioMed Central:  http://www.biomedcentral.com/

2 PubMed Central:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

3 PLoS:  http://www.plos.org/

4 Bioline International:  http://www.bioline.org.br/

Indian Initiatives

5 Indian Academy of Science:  http://www.ias.ac.in/

6 Indian National Science Academy:  http://www.insa.ac.in/

7 The National Academy of Science, India:  http://www.nasi.org.in/abst.htm

8 MedIND:  http://medind.nic.in/

9 NISCAIR Research Journals:  http://www.niscair.res.in/sciencecommunication/researchjournals/rejour/rejour1.htm

10 Indianjournals.com: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=open_access_publications_list

11 Medknow Publications:  http://www.medknow.com/

12 Kamla-Raj Enterprises:  http://www.krepublishers.com/KREInf/index.html

13 OJAS@INFLIBNET Centre: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ojs/

Directory of Open Access Journals:  http://www.doaj.org/