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- Open Access (OA) resources are free, available research articles.
- Open Access ensures that anyone can access and use these resources.
- Discover more about these OA resources.
What is Open Access?
Open Access (OA) is defined by SPARC as "Free, online availability of research articles."
In the scholarly publishing environment, there are 3 types of open access. They are:
- Green OA (self-archiving):
- Authors are granted archival right for articles published in subscription journals.
- CDC Stacks is the institutional repository of record for CDC authors.
- Authors are granted archival right for articles published in subscription journals.
- Gold OA:
- Articles are published in open access journals.
- Costs associated with publishing are passed on to authors with article processing charges or off-set by institutional or governmental support.
- Articles are published in open access journals.
- Hybrid OA:
- Normally authors can elect to publish their articles as Open Access.
- Processing charges may occur.
- Many authors choose this model to increase availability of their research.
- Normally authors can elect to publish their articles as Open Access.
Resources
Articles and eBooks
- Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR)
- An overview to open access academic resources and eBooks.
- An overview to open access academic resources and eBooks.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- An index of open access journals from around the world.
- An index of open access journals from around the world.
Open access scholarly publications
Preprints
These articles have not yet been peer-reviewed. All articles available via preprint services are available at no cost.
Practice guidelines
Clinical and community-based practice guidelines summarize evidence on best practices.
CDC clinical and community-based practice guidelines:
- CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Guidelines
- CDC COVID-19 Guidance
- CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Recommendations and Reports
Other clinical practice guidelines:
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force – Clinical preventive services
- NIH-NCCIH Clinical Practice Guidelines
- VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK evidence-based recommendations site)
- Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines
- ECRI (Emergency Care Research Institute)
- Clinical practice guideline repository (registration required)
- Clinical practice guideline repository (registration required)
- Trip Clinical Search Engine
Other community-based practice guidelines:
- Guide to Community Preventive Services
- Guideline Central
- GIN (Guidelines International Network) International Guidelines Library
Related resources
Content Source:
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library