Research Guides: Education: Open Access Resources

Deep Blue (UM Repository)

Deep Blue Documents
Deep Blue Documents include education-related articles, chapters, dissertations, conference presentations, media, and other work produced by the U-M community. The majority of documents are searchable and viewable by everyone, though authors can apply some access restrictions.
Deep Blue Data
Deep Blue Data provides access to digital research data that were developed or used in the support of research activities at U-M. All data in the repository are available for anyone to download without restriction.

OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.
OER Commons
From a single point of access in OER Commons, you can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER. Some curated collections to start exploring include: Full university courses, Interactive mini-lessons and simulations, Adaptations of existing open work, Open Textbooks, K-12 Lesson Plans, worksheets, and activities

To generate a list of education journals that provide open access, navigate to Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities and use the "Open Access" filter to narrow the search results.

AERA Open ICPSR Archive
In keeping with the American Educational Research Association's proposed data sharing and archiving policies, AERA Open requires authors to deposit data and other study materials with the openICPSR repository.