Here you will find an – continuously updated – overview of Open Access offers. These are currently divided into three categories:
Open Access versions of Paywall articles: | |
 | Google Scholar: The scientific search engine indexes freely available full texts from various disciplines. After the search query, the available formats (DOC, PDF, HTML) are listed on the right side of the results display. |
 | Unpaywall: Unpaywall is a browser plugin (available for Chrome and Firefox) that redirects you to freely available versions of the document you just called up, which is not accessible in full text (click on the green tab to legally bypass existing paywalls). |
 | CORE Discovery: CORE Discovery offers another way to find free versions of Paywall content. The browser extension is available for various browsers such as Chrome and Firefox. |
Pure open access publications: | |
 | DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): Quality-tested open access journals and their articles can be researched via the DOAJ – a community-curated online directory. |
 | DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books): For e-books there is also DOAB, an interdisciplinary directory of scientific e-books that have been published with an Open Access license. |
 | OAPEN: The OAPEN library offers – mainly in the field of humanities and social sciences – freely accessible scientific publications |
Preprint-Server / open repositoriesPublishers allow authors – depending on the contractual situation – to provide accepted manuscripts via institutional repositories after embargo periods of 12 to 24 months (depending on the journal). A selection of repositories and preprint servers that offer open access publications: | |
 | PubMed: PubMed is a medical database for biomedicine and biotechnology It is operated by the National Library of Medicine (USA). |
 | arXiv (“archive”): arXiv is a preprint document server operated by Cornell University for the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science as well as economics. |
 | Preprints (The Multidisciplinary Preprint Platform): Preprints is a multidisciplinary preprint server provided by MDPI. |
 | Europe PMC (Europe Pubmed Central): Europe PMC is an open access repository that provides biomedical publications. |
 | Scilit (“Scientific Literature”): Scilit is a multidisciplinary database maintained by MDPI. The data are extracted from Crossref and Pubmed. |
 | SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe): SHARE is offered by the Open Science Framework. |
 | bioRxiv (“bio-archive”): bioRxiv (The Preprint Server for Biology) is a preprint server for biology. |
 | ChemRxiv (“chem-archive”): ChemRxiv is a preprint server for chemistry. |
 | CogPrints (Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive): CogPrints is an open access server for self-archiving by authors (mostly cognitive sciences). |
 | engrXiv Preprints (“engineering archive”): engrXiv Preprints is a preprint server for engineering. |
 | PsyArXiv (“psychology archive”): PsyArXiv is a preprint repository for science in the field of psychology. |
 | SSRN (Social Science Research Network): SSRN is a preprint server for humanities, human, social and economic sciences. |
If you have further questions about the availability of open access documents, please send us an email to openaccess@tuhh.de. Additional information about Open Access is also available here.
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