Check our page about Open Access publishing if you want to know more about journal quality control.
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The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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The OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) membership page lists a number of Open Access publishers.
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The Open Access Directory provides a list of book publishers that use an Open Access publishing model.
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OpenDOAR lists a number of suitable subject repositories
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Flanders Marine Institute: VLIZ
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OAD list a number of subject repositories as well. In principle these disciplinary archives are accessible for all researchers, regardless of the author’s institutional affiliation
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Nature Precedings. Documents in bioinformatics, genetics, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, ecology, and several other subjects.
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Threatened and Endangered Species Document Repository. From the US Department of Defense (DoD), and limited to research on threatened and endangered species on the 30 million acres of land under DoD stewardship.
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Plazi. On taxonomic research
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Aquatic Commons. The fresh- and brackish-water counterpart to OceanDocs, below. (From the same agencies?)
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Avano. Harvesting many marine science repositories for OAI-based cross-archive searching. From L’Ifremer (Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer, or the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea).
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Central and Eastern European Marine Repository (CEEMAR). From the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS). Deposits limited to those from scientists in European Countries in Economic Transition (ECET).
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DRS@nio. From India’s National Institute of Oceanography.
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Marine & Ocean Science ePrints Archive. From the UK’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
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OceanDocs. From Hasselt University, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the UN’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commssion / International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IOC/IODE). The salt water counterpart to the Aquatic Commons, above.
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The Open Access Directory lists a large amount of open data repositories
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Some Biology-oriented journals have explicit Open Data policies: check http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_open-data_policies for an overview
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The Data Hub is an openly editable open data catalogue, in the style of Wikipedia, powered by CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation). You can consult and add datasets. Datasets are more or less thematically ordered.
- ZENODO is a repository service that enables researchers, scientists, projects and institutions to share and showcase multidisciplinary research results (data and publications) that are not part of existing institutional or subject-based repositories
- figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner