r/OpenAccess

482 archived posts · Feb 2009 – Sep 2026

Open Access

r/OpenAccess

Open access refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature freely available online to anyone interested in reading it.

Created Feb 16, 2009

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Open access refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature freely available online to anyone interested in reading it.

This subreddit is about the news, opinion, and analysis concerning the movement towards open access to academic research. Both pros and cons are accepted and encouraged.

Related subreddits

r/Open_Access_tracking
r/Scihub
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r/MetaResearch
r/Academia
r/PhilosophyOfScience
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Useful resources

DOAJ - Directory of open access journals
Sherpa Romeo - Easy to read / TLDR-style aggregator for copyright policies of various journals.

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