OCLC is supporting libraries, researchers, educators and students with high-quality open access content that is discoverable and freely accessible through WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org.
OCLC is making open content more discoverable and accessible through expanding collections and user-friendly discovery services.
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). OLH publishes 28 peer-reviewed journals, and is funded by an international consortium of almost 300 libraries committed to the mission of making scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future. OLH won several awards, including the 2020 AOP Small Digital Publisher of the Year award, the Coko Open Publishing Award from 2019, and a high commendation from the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2020.
Open access content, including open educational resources, can provide faculties and students much needed scholarly information online while they are teaching and learning remotely, especially during the pandemic.
The Open Education Network (OEN) is based at the Centre for Open Education in the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development. The OEN community includes more than 1,200 campuses. Together they develop shared strategies for building open education programs and support the Open Textbook Library, a comprehensive resource for openly licensed academic textbooks. The library currently includes more than 800 free textbooks, which cover a range of key subject areas including Business, Law, Medicine and Social Sciences, where most of the textbooks are peer-reviewed.
A variety of open access content is currently available through WorldCat, both from traditional publishers as well as from leading open access providers, including: Directory of Open Access Books, Directory of Open Access Journals, HathiTrust, Knowledge Unlatched, Open Access Publishing in European Networks, OAIster, Open Book Publishers, OpenEdition, Open Textbook Library, Paperity, Persée, PLOS, Project Gutenberg, and SciELO (The Scientific Online Library).
OCLC partners with more than 400 publishers and content providers to proactively obtain bibliographic records with holdings attached. This ensures that library collections are kept up to date—critical for rapidly changing e-titles and e-collections.
OCLC brings the power of the world’s largest library cooperative to support open access initiatives at scale. For publishers and content providers, OCLC brings visibility to open content. For libraries and their users, OCLC helps prioritise open collections for optimal discovery and access.
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