In this section we continue to divulge online resources, which may be personal web pages, blogs, institutional portals, etc. A large part will be dedicated to the medical sciences and scientific research. In this edition, we focus on the week of Open Access, which took place from 24-29 October.

Here you can learn several important resources on the subject and follow ongoing activities.

 

 



Directory of Open Access Journals
The DOAJ - Directory of Open AccessJournals is a directory that brings together scientific/ academic journals in Open Access form, according to thedefinition adopted in the Budapest Open Access Initiative. The DOAJ currently comprises more than 5,000 journals from around the world, covering approximately half a million peer-reviewed articles in several languages, including, in addition to English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, etc. It takes part in the World Wide Science project. More information about Open Access here.

In Wikipedia you can also find this video, to better understand the importance of Open Accessand why it deserves our attention.



On discussing Open access, we should also mention institutional repositories, which include a substantial part of the scientific output of universities and beyond.
The RCAAP – Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal is already fairly representative of the scientific and academicoutput of our country.
It also has a blog.

 

 





Finally, if you’re not familiar with it, here you can get  acquainted with the Repository of the University of Lisbon.