Library Guides: Journalism &amp; Communication Research Guide: Open Scholarship Resources & Services

Some Titles Through The ISU Digital Press

Pulitzer Prize Cartoons: The Men and their Masterpieces

Freeing Scholarly Knowledge

Athena Unbound by Peter Baldwin
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780262048002
Publication Date: 2023-03-28

What is Open Access?

Sample of Open Access Titles

21st Century Media and Female Mental Health

The Changing Boundaries of Sports Journalism in the Digital Era

sameness and repitiotion in contemporary media culture

the art of communication in a polarized world

nordic media histories of propaganda and persuasion

the lady's magazine abd making of literary history

the media and communications study skills

media infrastructure and the politics of digital time

advertising and the transformation of screen cultures

technology, media literacy, and the human subject

images of immigrants and refugees in western europe

british media coverage of the press reform debate

Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2 Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media

Social Media and Journalism : Trends, Connections, Implications

writing for strategic communication industries

rhetorical devices in classroom films after 1940

protecting the right to freedom of expression under the european convention on human rights

comparative media policy, regulation, and governance in europe

tech giants, artificial intelligence, and the future of journalism

commercial communication in the digital age

media freedom and right to information in africa

digital discourse and the public inellectual

global humanitarianism and media culture

Some Open Access Book Platforms

Knowledge Unlatched
"...makes scholarly content freely available to everyone and contributes to the further development of the Open Access infrastructure."
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library provides an easy-to-use interface for locating and evaluating OER. Along with peer-reviewed textbooks, the OTL provides reviews from faculty who have adopted their texts for courses.
Luminos
"Luminos is University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as our traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared."
OASIS
An integrated search tool by SUNY. Contains over 300,000 records
Direct to Open (D2O) - MIT
"D2O harnesses the collective power of libraries to support open and equitable access to vital, leading scholarship."
University of Michigan Press eBook Collection
University of Michigan Press eBook collection filtered by Open Access.
Bloomsbury Collection (Open Access)
Covers many disciplines. Use the subject filter to browse and access titles.
OER Metafinder
"The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) links to a wide array of open content, including open access books and articles"
Directory of Open Access Books (doab)
"The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books .... The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards"
OER Commons
The Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons currently includes open educational materials in broad subject areas. Materials include lesson plans, textbooks, activities, assessments, readings, and more.

JSTOR: Open Content This link opens in a new window
This is a subset of the full JSTOR collection, limited to content found in the JSTOR Open Collection. It is primarily a collection of book chapters, but it also contains several thousand freely-accessible journal articles.

Open Book Publishers
"Our books are published in hardback, paperback and ebook editions, but we also publish free online editions of every title in PDF, HTML and XML formats that can be read via our website, downloaded, reused or embedded anywhere."
WAC Clearinghouse (Books & Journals)
"The WAC Clearinghouse is an open-access, educational website supported by more than 150 contributors, institutional sponsors, and the Colorado State University Open Press as well as more than 180 volunteer editors, editorial staff members, reviewers, and editorial board members."
Google Books
You can also use Google Books to look for free online books or sale copies of e-books. Non-copyrighted materials are the obvious strength of their collections.

Sample of OA Journals

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Open Access Data Journalism Titles

The Data Journalism Handbook 1
The Data Journalism Handbook 2
The Data Journalism Handbook by Liliana Bounegru (Editor) & Jonathan Gray (Editor)
ISBN: 9462989516
Publication Date: 2021-03-23
Teaching Data and Computational Journalism (Columbia Journalism School) by Berret, Charles & Phillips, Cheryl
ISBN: 9780692637456
Publication Date: 2016

Open Scholarship Services

This ISU Library site has information about:

ISU Digital Press
Open Publishing
Open Access Agreements

More Open Access Titles

Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Almost 16,000 journals are indexed in DOAJ. They cover all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities. Since many of the titles are in languages other than English, you may want to use the "Languages" filter.
Open Library of Humanities (OLH) Journals
"Each journal that we publish has been evaluated for the rigour of its content, the international standing of its authors and editorial board, and the value to its disciplinary field."
Open Access Journals Through Browzine
Free, Open Access content available in Browzine.