USEFUL OA LINKS

Green road to open access

OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open Access Repositories is a useful resource when looking for a suitable repository for self-archiving.
SHERPA/RoMEO: Database of academic publishers’ policies on the self-archiving of publications (green open access). This database is intended for reference only, and before publishing a work in a repository, you should always check the licensing terms in your contract or on the publisher’s website.
Zenodo: The European Commission’s multidisciplinary orphan repository for publications, data, reports and other digital outputs related to research projects. Each record is assigned a permanent DOI identifier.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): Directory of peer-reviewed academic e-books published in open-access mode. The interface contains an index of information about these e-books, with links to the full texts of the publications on the publisher’s website or other repositories.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): The Directory of Open Access Journals is a useful resource for finding a suitable open-access journal (gold open access). The interface provides information about a journal (article processing charges, licences, etc.), with a large number of titles searchable down to the level of the articles themselves.
Open Research Europe (ORE): The European Commission’s publication platform enabling beneficiaries of Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe programme grants from all research areas to publish their research results in open-access mode free of charge. Accepted publications are initially published in a preprint version and then undergo an open-access peer-review process. More information can be found in the Article Guidelines for authors.

OpenAIRE: A European Commission project developing support infrastructure for open access to the results of EU-funded academic projects. It acts as an aggregator of open-access repositories. It also produces a line of instructive videos and webinars, which can be found on the OpenAIRE YouTube channel.
Open Access Button: An application that lets you search for legally openly available versions of published articles (by DOI, PubmedId, title).
Unpaywall: A Google Chrome or Firefox plugin that lets you search for a legally available version of a particular article you want.
Vím, kde publikuji (I Know Where I’m Publishing): The Czech version of the Think. Check. Submit. awareness campaign, which offers a guide to assessing the credibility of a journal or publisher where an author wants to publish. An informative video describes how the guide works.

Amnesia: An anonymisation tool that removes direct identifiers (such as names) from your data and transforms secondary identifiers (e.g. date of birth, address) so that individuals cannot be identified in the data. To learn more about this resource, watch this webinar.
DMPonline: A free web-based tool that lets you create Data Management Plans (DMPs), share them with co-authors, and then export or publish them. This resource includes DMP templates reflecting the requirements of funders (Horizon 2020) and a list of published DMPs.
FAIR self-assessment tool: This tool asks simple questions to help you assess how FAIR your data is. You can also use this checklist to assess the FAIRness of your data.
Re3data.org (Registry of Research Data Repositories): The Registry of Research Data Repositories offers an overview of existing international data repositories and contains useful information to help you select the right repository for your data.
Zenodo: The European Commission’s multidisciplinary orphan repository for publications, data, reports and other digital outputs related to research projects. Each record is assigned a permanent DOI identifier.

Creative Commons: This resource selects the Creative Commons licence that is best suited to your work after asking you some simple questions. For more information on the various Creative Commons licences and their application, see the website of the Czech branch of Creative Commons.
GDPR na UK (GDPR at Charles University): An in-house web portal covering personal data protection issues at Charles University (documents, FAQs, contact details, etc.).
Choose a license: This resource helps you to choose an open-source licence suitable for your software.