Open Access
Open Access is providing online access to scientific information (articles, monographs, research data, and other research outputs) that is free of charge to the reader, and licensed so that they can be further used and exploited by researchers, the industry, and citizens.
Milestone definitions of Open Access include those of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and the Berlin Declaration (October 2003) on Open Access.
About Plan S
Plan S is an open-access publishing initiative launched in September 2018. The plan is supported by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders. Plan S requires that, from 2020, scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms. You can use this tool ( https://journalcheckertool.org/ ) to check the journal's compliance.
More information on the website https://www.coalition-s.org/
Discount conditions for OA publication fees for various scientific journals in databases purchased through the ELNET Consortium can be found in a table on the Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) website ("Download" button).
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality,
open access, peer-reviewed journals.
DOAB is an online directory that provides access to academic peer-reviewed books and chapters from 195 publishers.
SHERPA Services helps authors and institutions make informed and confident decisions in open-access publication and compliance.
SHERPA/RoMEO enables researchers and librarians to see publishers' conditions for open-access archiving on a journal-by-journal basis.
SHERPA RoMEO is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis.
SHERPA/JULIET enables researchers and librarians to see funders' conditions for open-access publication
SHERPA Juliet is a searchable database and single focal point of up-to-date information concerning funders' policies and their requirements on open access, publication and data archiving.
OpenDOAR is the quality-assured global directory of academic open-access repositories.
OpenDOAR enables the identification, browsing, and search for repositories, based on a range of features, such as location, software, or type of material held.
EMU DSpace, the digital archive of the Estonian University of Life Sciences also joined the catalog in 2017.
OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) is a key EU e-infrastructure whose mission is to establish, maintain, and operate an open and sustainable scholarly communication infrastructure and provide the necessary services, resources, and network for supporting a common European e-science environment. It supports a set of services to facilitate the road to Open Science.
EMU DSpace was merged with OpenAIRE in 2019.
Since 2009 the National Open Access Desk for Estonia is the University of Tartu Library.
Guides for Researchers