LibGuides: Open Access Materials: Open Access Welcome

What is Open Access?

OPEN ACCESS

Open Access are freely available materials online. They can be journals, eBooks, Databases and so much more.

Open Access Description from Creative Commons
There’s an incredible amount of scientific research conducted at universities and institutions around the world. Historically, the findings of this research have been published in scholarly journals. However, access to this research is typically restricted–granted only to those who are granted permission via their university affiliation, or by purchasing access to individual articles. This is fundamentally problematic. . . .
Registry of Open Access Repositories
The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximizes research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective.

Library Resources for Finding Open Access Materials

The Public Domain by Stephen Fishman
Call Number: 346.7304 FI from Emmetsburg
ISBN: 1413300154
Publication Date: 2004-03-12
Even though grade-school teachers have told us otherwise for years, you can copy other people's creative work and get away with it. How? By dipping into the public domain, where everything is free for the taking. The first book of its kind, The Public Domain is the definitive guide to the creative works that are not protected by copyright and can be copied freely or otherwise used without paying permission fees.

Library of Congress: Open Access

PBS: The Library of Congress Opened its Catalogs to the World. Here’s Why it Matters (2017)
Imagine you wanted to find books or journal articles on a particular subject. Or find manuscripts by a particular author. Or locate serials, music or maps. You would use a library catalog that includes facts – like title, author, publication date, subject headings and genre. That information and more is stored in the treasure trove of library catalogs. It is hard to overstate how important this library catalog information is, particularly as the amount of information expands every day. With this information, scholars and librarians are able to find things in a predictable way. That’s because of the descriptive facts presented in a systematic way in catalog records. But what if you could also experiment with the data in those records to explore other kinds of research questions – like trends in subject matter, semantics in titles or patterns in the geographic source of works on a given topic? Now it is possible. The Library of Congress has made 25 million digital catalog records available for anyone to use at no charge. The free data set includes records from 1968 to 2014.

Library Resources Canvas Guide

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Discover quick links free resources from the library and online, as well as how-to guides and videos.

Video Tutorials

Iowa Lakes Community College Libraries Video Tutorials

ILCC provides a range of short video tutorials that explain where to look for library and online resources, how to access them, Subject Guides, keyword searching, and so much more. For additional videos in library and information literacy, click the bottom link to the Iowa Lakes Community College Libraries YouTube page.

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Finding Online Library Resources

What are Subject Guides?

Discover a great source for finding resources online in just seconds by either going through your Canvas course and clicking on "ILCC Library Guides" or from the ILCC Library website: iowalakes.edu/library

Keyword Searching

Find the right word each time.

Search Limiters

Find quick ways of finding just the right articles and eBooks.

How To Cite

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Open Access Materials

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