OASIS Topics

• Researchers
  • Open Access: what is it and why should we have it?
  • Benefits of Open Access for research dissemination
    • Citation impact
      • Managing your research profile
      • Research metrics
  • Researchers in Developing Countries
  • Ways to provide Open Access to your work
    • Open Access Repositories
      • Self-Archiving FAQs
    • Open Access Journals
      • Setting up an Open Access journal
    • Publish your book in Open Access
  • Author''s Concerns
    • Author's Rights and Author Addenda
    • Publisher Permissions and Embargoes
    • Researchers and Open Access Policies
• Librarians
  • OA & the mission of the Research Library
  • Support & Implementation of OA
  • Open Access Repositories
    • Establishing a Repository
    • Supporting a Repository
    • Uses of a Repository
    • Business Models, Costs and ROI
    • Repository Services
  • Open Access Journals
    • Promoting and cataloguing Open Access Journals
    • Supporting existing OA journals
  • Promoting OA
    • Library-run advocacy programmes on campus
      • Examples of successful library-run advocacy programmes
    • The library web site and Open Access
      • Author's concerns and Open Access
      • General Open Access information
      • The institutional repository web page
    • Library organizations that support Open Access
• Publishers
  • The benefits of Open Access publishing
  • Publishing, copyright, and Open Access
    • Publisher permission services
    • Institutions and copyright
  • Publisher policies on self-archiving
  • Open Access Journals
    • Open Access Journals: business models
      • Case study: Medknow Publications
    • Tools and platforms
    • Converting to Open Access
  • Open Access Monographs
    • Open Acess monographs: business issues
    • Case studies: Open Access monographs
  • Scholarly societies and Open Access publishing
  • University presses and Open Access publishing
    • Case studies: university presses
  • Open Access publishing in the humanities
  • Open Access publishing in the social sciences
  • Funder policies on Open Access publishing
• Administrators
  • Institutional Advantages for Open Access
  • Open Access Repositories
    • Business Aspects of Institutional Repositories
    • Institutional Repositories for Research Management and Assessment
  • Institutional Policies
    • Developing an Institutional Open Access Policy
    • The Optimal Open Access Policy for Institutions
  • Researchers and Open Access Policies
• Public
  • Access to research and the impact on real people
• Students
  • What can students do?
  • Education and journal cost
  • Students' declining access to research
  • HIgh journal price