Open Access is free online access to research outputs (scientific articles, research data, conference proceedings, and other materials) that any user can freely read, copy, print a small number of copies, and save to their computer storage devices. Open access to scientific publications is ensured through open-access journals and open-access archives and repositories

The Lithuanian Science Council is the institution coordinating open-access activities in Lithuania.

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OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

Foreign open access journals:

1. SpringerOpen – scientific journals published by Springer
2. Co-Action Publishing – an international collection of scientific journals and books (ethnology, philology, philosophy, history, medicine, art, political science, sociology)
3. Core – a search engine for open access scientific information sources, featuring over 5 million full-text documents and over 66 million metadata records from various scientific fields
4. DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) – open access publications on topics in the humanities, social sciences, technology, physical sciences, and biomedicine
5. Elsevier Open Access Journals – scientific journals from the Elsevier publishing house
6. Highwire Press – an archive of scientific journals from Stanford University’s HighWire Press
7. Wiley Open Access – scientific journals from the Wiley publishing house

LITHUANIAN OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

1. eLABa – Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library
2. ETD – Lithuanian Electronic Theses and Dissertations
3. LiDA – Lithuanian Social Sciences Data Archive, which collects, organizes, and provides researchers with access to structured Lithuanian empirical data sets and, in collaboration with similar institutions in Europe and worldwide, exchanges data, experience, and methodologies for the collection and dissemination of empirical data
4. Lituanistika – Lithuanian Humanities and Social Sciences Database, which presents research on the development and current state of the Lithuanian state, society, culture, the Lithuanian nation, and the Lithuanian language
5. MIDAS – National Open Access Research Data Archive
6. Kaunas University of Technology repository
7. Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Vrublevskis Library repository
8. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University repository
9. Vytautas Magnus University e-publications repository (VDU ePub)

FOREIGN OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

1. Cambridge University Press – full-text e-books on various topics
2. Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) – a thematic repository for the humanities and social sciences
3. DART-Europe E-theses Portal – a registry of electronic theses from various European universities http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php
4. DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) – a catalog of open access books featuring full-text e-books on various academic topics
5. OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) – open access full-text academic books on topics in the humanities and social sciences
6. OpenDOAR – a directory of open access repositories
7. Open Music Library – an open music library
8. Project MUSE ebooks – open access full-text e-books on various topics
9. ROAR – a registry of open access institutional repositories

RESEARCH DATA REPOSITORIES

1. Zenodo – a research data repository funded by the EU
2. DataCite – a research data repository aimed at ensuring the visibility and permanent accessibility of research data – data sets are assigned a permanent digital identifier (DOI), registered, and made searchable
3. Registry of Research Data Repositories – a registry of research data repositories