LibGuides: Psychology &amp; Counselling: Open Access Resources

Open Access Resources

Open Access (OA) is a term applied to research outputs (articles, presentations, conference papers etc.) that have been made publicly available without restriction, providing another route to access academic content.

Use the tabs below to navigate a range of Open Access resources.

Open Access Resources

For more information on Open Access, see Peter Suber's book below (you can also access it freely online via MIT Press).

Open Access by Peter Suber
Call Number: 070.57973 SUB
ISBN: 9780262517638
Publication Date: 2012
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.

CORE
Provides access to over 20 million scholarly articles aggregated from many OA repositories.
DataCite
A search engine for research outputs, including datasets and other unpublished works like working papers deposited on the platform.
EThOS
Provides a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible. 
Europe PMC
Provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature, indexing over 40 million publications, preprints and other documents.
OpenDOAR
Enables you to search the contents of repositories for freely available academic research information.
SocArXiv
An open archive of the social sciences providing a platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code. 
UEL Research Repository
The institutional repository at UEL, includes over 2,000 OA items from researchers at UEL.

Educational Psychology Research and Practice (EPRAP)
Educational Psychology Research and Practice is an open access periodical published twice a year by the School of Psychology, University of East London. It offers a forum for informed debate and discussion of Educational Psychology research and training as well as a wider focus on issues of social justice and civic engagement in applied psychological practice. EPRaP is open to publishing research findings, literature reviews, commentaries, methodology papers, reflection on practice and book/resource reviews. It is part of a research and learning culture that recognises the importance of knowledge exchange and impact for partners in the community.
Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers in Psychology is an Open Access journal, publishing peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology.
BMC Psychology
BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, health and social psychology, as well as personality and individual differences.

Unpaywall
Unpaywall is a browser extension that helps you to find legally deposited, freely available versions of papers.
Open Access Button
Open Access Button includes a search engine and a browser extension that can locate legally deposited, freely available versions of papers.