Related blogs and websites
Below is a selection of links to blogs and websites on subjects related to institutional repositories and the developing landscape of scholarly communication.
On this page,
- University of Manchester websites
- Open access and copyright websites
- Subject and institutional repository websites
- Funding bodies websites
- Online services
University of Manchester websites
- Research Support Hub
a dedicated support site for researchers of the University. - The University of Manchester Intellectual Property Limited (UMIP)
provides guidance to University researchers on identifying, evaluating, protecting and commercialising the results of their research. - Research information from The John Rylands University Library
a useful general guide for researchers of the University including the latest training courses being offered by JRUL.
Open access and copyright
- Directory of Open Access Journals
a directory of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. - Open Archives Initiative
develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. - Open Access News
daily updates on the latest developments in open access edited by Peter Suber
- Open Access Archivangelism
Steve Harnad's blog covering all that is open access - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coaltion (SPARC)
an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
- The SPARC Open Access Newsletter
monthly newsletter of open access developments edited by Peter Suber - Sherpa/RoMEO
a searchable database of publisher's copyright and self-archiving policies.
Subject and institutional repositories
- The Depot
a re-direct service acting as a gateway to institutional repositories and a deposit service for e-prints. - OpenDOAR
a directory of open access repositories. - Repository66
geographical location of repositories. - Repositories Support Project
support service for UK repository growth. - Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
repository index and usage statistics. - arXiv
open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics. - RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
collaborative volunteer effort to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. - Electronic Theses Online System
a JISC funded initiative to improve online access to UK Higher Education research theses.
Funding bodies
- SHERPA/JULIET
a directory of research funders' open access policies. - Research Councils UK
the strategic partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils.
Online services
- CiteULike
citeulike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - Connotea
Connotea is a free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists. Produced by Nature Publishing this web service enables you to store, organise and share your bibiliographies. - Intute
Intute is a free online service providing a database of hand selected Web resources for education and research. - CiteSeer
a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. - OAIster
an online catalogue of open access digital resources. - Scirus
a science-specific search engine indexing a large set of data sources including institutional repositories. - Zetoc
access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. - Zotero
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. - ScientificCommons
ScientificCommons.org aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet. It uses the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) to retrieve scientific knowledge data from subject-specific and institutional repositories.