Open Educational Resources: Environmental Studies, Science, & Sustainability
This Guide provides access to Open, Online Resources in Environmental & Sustainability Fields.
Open Access Databases
The databases below are examples of searchable, open-access, repositories that can contain multiple types of information-- from peer-reviewed journal articles to government reports.
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access JournalsA service that covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- SCIRP Open Access JournalsScientific Research Publishing is one of the leading international publishers for Open Access journals devoted to various disciplines in science, technology and medicine. SCIRP Open access journals are freely available via the Internet for immediate worldwide open access to the full text of articles serving the best interests of the world scientific research community. Journals made available through SCIRP undergo the same peer-review and quality control process as other scholarly journals and are also organized by subject:
- Earth and Environmental Science JournalsEarth and Environmental Science Journals from SCIRP Open Access Journals.
- OpenScience DirectoryActs as a Open Access Journal meta search engine and provides access to 13,000 titles found in array of disciplines. A collaborative project between EBSCO and Hesselt University, their goal was to create a search tool for Open Access Journals that is searchable by keyword, subject, or via an A-Z title list of publications.
- Bentham Science Open Access PlusPublishes over 230 plus peer-reviewed open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences.
- OMICS OnlineThe research articles in all journals published by OMICS Group are 'Open Access'. They are immediately and permanently available online without charge. A number of journals require an institutional or a personal subscription to view other content, such as reviews or paper reports. Free trial subscriptions to these journals are available.
- arXiv.orgOpen Access journal repository. Open access to 852,733 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
- DASHOpen Access journal repository. "A central, open-access repository of research by members of the Harvard community."
Open Access Journals
The following are examples of open-access journals-- from peer-reviewed journal articles to government reports.
- Earth's FutureAmerican Geophysical Union open access journal.
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsAmerican Geophysical Union open access journal.
- Earth InteractionsAmerican Geophysical Union & American Meteorological Society open access journal.
- Open AIREOpen Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. Open Access includes the outputs that scholars normally give away for free for publication; it includes peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.
- European GeoSciences Union: Open Access Peer-Reviewed JournalsEuropean Geosciences Union open access journal journals
- PLOS ONEJournal of the Public Library of Science