Research Guides: OER/ Open Access: Open Access @PC

What is Open Access?

Resources that are openly available to users with no requirements for authentication or payment: www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib/MS1999/Glossary.html

A publication model where in neither readers nor a reader's institution are charged for access to articles or other resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles. ... www.loc.gov/acq/conser/glossary.html

free availability of scholarly research literature, without restrictions of price or permissions, on the public Internet. Potentially achievable through researcher self-archiving in a digital repository or publication in an Open Access journal. ... www.csa.com/discoveryguides/scholarship/gloss.php

Digital Commons This link opens in a new window
Digital Commons at Providence College is an open access publishing system for research, scholarship and creative expressions by Providence College faculty and students in all media and formats (e.g., articles, monographs, white papers, proceedings, presentations, theses, artworks, performances, multimedia products, etc.); and digitized primary source materials from Special and Archival Collections (Phillips Memorial Library). Scholarship and creative expressions included within Digital Commons at Providence College have been reviewed, selected and deposited following protocols established by individual college departments, centers or programs.

PC's Selected Works Gallery
SelectedWorks is a publication profile tool for Providence College faculty. Creation of a Selected Works profile allows faculty to create, maintain, and distribute, personalized web pages highlighting their scholarly work. With a SelectedWorks page, faculty can easily manage and organize their scholarly output in one central location on the web. SelectedWorks serves as an excellent dissemination and discovery tool for scholarship.