Finding open access publications

Those of you who have been to our research support session on getting published will have heard us talk about the Open Access debate:

Research, social media and getting published from Clare McCluskey

We also blogged a little on this topic back in March.  One of the consequences of more people ensuring that their research is available without a subscription is the increased use of institutional repositories.  Basically, lots of researchers are now making their conference slides, pre-prints of journal articles and other research reports available to the general public via websites at their universities (where their agreement with their publishers allows).  You can go to individual examples, e.g. University of Huddersfield, University of Leicester, Institute of Education.  However, if you want to do a search across the different collections available, the Directory of Open Access Repositories is the place to go.