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Open Access Week 2013: Additional OA Resources

This guide describes the U of M Libraries' plans for Open Access Week 2013 and provides resources for OA topics. Check here periodically for new developments.

Open Access Explained

Watch the video "What is Open Access?" from PHD Comics.

Did You Know?

The profit margin of Springer, a huge academic publisher, was about 7 times higher than Wal-Mart in 2008.

OA Links

Science's Special Issue, Oct. 4, 2013: Communication in Science: Pressures and Predators

Use the Directory of Open Access Journals to find a title in your field and check on OA policies.

The Scholarly Kitchen Blog              

How Open Access Empowered a 16-Year-Old to Make Cancer Breakthrough

Watch Jack Andraka explain how Open Access to research allowed him to discover breakthrough diagnostic for pancreatic cancer.