Law Library at Allard Hall
Open Access
Open Access (OA)
- The practice of providing free and unrestricted online access to research publications and data
- Scholarly Communications @ UBCInformation about Open Access and author rights
- Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on PublicationsEstablished requirements for grants awarded by major Government of Canada granting agencies, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). To comply, researchers must make their research freely accessible within 12 months of publication by:
1. Depositing their final, peer-reviewed manuscript into an institutional or disciplinary repository or
2. Publishing in a journal that offers immediate open access or that offers open access within 12 months - Tri-Agency Open Access Policy Guide (UBC)How UBC Library can help
- Open Access (Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL))How to promote Open Access to research through Open Access journals or repositories
Allard Research Commons (ARC)
- Allard Research Common (ARC)Provides open, global access to the research and scholarship of the Allard School of Law in collaboration with the Law Library, University of British Columbia
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN)Enables scholars to distribute and share their research worldwide by providing free access to their scholarly papers
cIRcle
cIRcle
- University of British Columbia's digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners
- Materials in cIRcle are openly accessible to anyone on the web, and will be preserved for future generations