Open Access Publication

Open Access publications are freely available scholarly works that anyone can read online, increasing visibility, impact, and equitable access to research.

Tri-Council Open Access Statement

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) have developed a policy for open access publications.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

eNeuro

An open-access journal from the Society for Neuroscience that publishes high-quality, broad-based, peer-reviewed research.

eLife

Life science and medicine publication that publishes reviewed preprints.  This publication combines the advantages of preprints with the scrutiny offered by peer review.

OpenAlex

OpenAlex is a free and open catalog of research works, authors, venues, and institutions. Researchers can use it to discover literature, track citations, and analyze research trends — fostering open, data‑driven scholarship.

arXiv

arXiv is a free, open-access repository where researchers share scholarly articles — mostly preprints — in physics, mathematics, computer science and related fields, making cutting-edge work publicly available to anyone with internet access.

bioRxiv

bioRxiv is a free, open-access repository for unpublished preprints in the life sciences, providing researchers with a fast, flexible way to share new findings ahead of peer review and make their work immediately available to the global scientific community.

PsyArXiv

PsyArXiv is a free, open-access preprint repository for the psychological sciences, offering researchers a platform to share new research papers quickly and publicly before formal publication

medRxiv

medRxiv is a free, open-access preprint repository for the medical and health sciences, enabling researchers to share new clinical and health-related findings immediately — before formal peer review or journal publication.

NeuroLibre

NeuroLibre is a free, open-access preprint server for Jupyter notebooks, enabling researchers to share interactive data analyses and computational work alongside traditional manuscripts.