Open Access Information and Data Resources

Freely available open access materials

Key open access journals in ocean and earth sciences are

• Annales Geophysicae
• Atmospheric chemistry and physics
• Biogeosciences and Biogeosciences Discussions
• Geoscientific model development
• Natural hazards and earth system sciences
• Ocean Science and Ocean Science Discussions
• PLoS ONE
• Polar research
• Scientific reports

To find a range of titles use the Directory of Open Access Journals – covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Key open access resources

• Brief guide to open access resources researching ocean and earth science topics
• NOL Gateway
• Ocean and earth Science: institutional repositories
• Data sources: ocean and earth sciences
• DataCite – A list of repositories for research data.

Our repositories have post prints (not the final published version) of our research, which can be downloaded

• ePrints – University of Southampton Institutional research repository
• NORA – NERC Online eprint repository