Oalib-free resources of 250,000 full texts

Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a non-profit academic organization supported by numerous Nobel Prize winners and charities, aiming to promote the latest research results of the science and medicine around the world.

Public Library of Science (the Public Library of Science, or PLoS) was established in October 2000, as a nonprofit organization for serving scientific and technological personnel and medical professionals, devoting to making literature all around the world in fields of science, technology and medicine free public resources available online.

At first PLoS did not see themselves as publishers, but encouraged and called on institutions publishing journals in areas of science, technology, and medicine to provide researchers with free access of the full text through public knowledge repository (such as PubMed Central). Then this got the support of more than 30,000 researchers from 180 countries, but commercial publishers had not responded to it.


For 13 years, PLOS has made much progress in open access. Similarly another repository, Oalib, strives to provide a simple way to find worldwide full texts of research papers on its main page: www.oalib.net. Welcome to oalib website! Oalib is featured with free access to 250,000 academic articles and the number is increasing every day.

A new step of Open Access: Oalib

Five years ago, the US National Institutes of Health was first putting into practice its mandate that (at least) the authors’ final versions of papers must be freely available within a maximum of a year of publishing — a ‘green’ open-access approach, with which this publication has consistently complied.


A US announcement on open access came last week. The US government said that publications from taxpayer-funded research should be made free to read after a year’s delay — expanding a policy that has, until now, applied only to biomedical science. The US Office of Science and Technology Policy has asked recently federal agencies to prepare plans to ensure that all articles and data produced from research that they fund are made publicly accessible within 12 months of publication.


We know from the policy that the US administration does not have enough resolve towards the policy that ultimately benefits science the most: ‘gold’ open access, in which the published article is immediately freely available, paid for by a processing charge rather than by readers’ subscriptions as it had asked for delayed-access.


In total, governments have taken part in completion of Open Access, which is progressive for many years. On one hand, completion of sustainable open access is necessarily based on sustainable service platform of publication. Both green-rode and gold –rode are products of promoting open access, and they are adaptive to different environments. On the other hand, the deepening of open access also contributing to exchange of knowledge should be taken into consideration. Oalib is taking the first step to provide a simple way to access research papers. Oalib has opened service to search for academic papers online and is pursuing to make the access of open access papers more convenient and easily operating.(see www.oalib.net)

Oalib features

Oalib is a new approach to deepen open access. It will facilitate using and dealing with research papers. The following are some prominent features.

Search needed academic articles through one main engine: Oalib lays one main page of neat outlay as a search entry on its main web page: http://www.oalib.net. You can search with your own options by marking up the responding boxes.

Full texts of 250,000 scholar articles are free available: Now oalib has collected more than 250,000 published or unpublished scholar articles in English. These articles are from broad disciplines: literature, law, history, geography, sociology, biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and other interdisciplines.

All literature information is presented in standard order: Titles and Full texts are striking and part of common information arranged by items. You can find the similar information in the analogical place on the page.

Provide advanced developments in all scientific areas: Oalib is ceaselessly adding open access articles recently available online whether they are published or pre-versions to its collection.

Quantity of articles rises in a high rate: The quantity of the collection increases in a fast speed on the base of good relationship with OA publishers and institutions which reserve large research articles and creative techniques.

Oalib: academic resources

Oalib http://www.oalib.net provides more than 170,000 academic research papers published in journals in most of disciplines. Full texts of all papers in oalib can be available for free online. You can search full texts and other information on the site www.oalib.net

OA library is committed to gathering free of charge papers and documents of high quality for scholars worldwide. We support sustainable access and do our best to provide a wide range of open access options to ensure everyone can read, use and trust the latest and comprehensive research paper. Open Access is devoted to working in good relationship with the research community, librarians, funders and other stakeholders to create friendly and harmony atmosphere among the scholars.

Open Access Library is featured with free access to 147,824 academic articles and the number is estimated to increase in the near future. Our goal is to provide a forum that scholars and readers can share scientific paper freely, come together and establish friendly and timely academic exchange atmosphere by way of collecting research articles and journals from all the corners. Should you have any suggestions and comments for the website construction, please feel free to email our Webmaster (oalib@hotmail.com ).

Oalib, a new feature of open access

For years, countries have been edging towards open access for research, with some funding agencies requiring that researchers make their papers publicly available within a set period after publication.  A report commissioned by the UK government recommends a more radical step: making all papers open access from the start, with authors paying publishers up-front to make their work free to read last year. Open Access gains much support from governments. Just a few days before, the US government said that publications from taxpayer-funded research should be made free to read after a year’s delay — expanding a policy that has, until now, applied only to biomedical science.

Since 1960s, when open access was proposed for the first time, open access has been urged by some strengths such as libraries, scientists, new publishers. Now impetus is largely from administrations. After the day When the UK government announced on 16 July that it would require much of the country’s taxpayer-funded research to be open-access from April 2013, the European Commission (EC) launched a similar proposal to open up all the work funded by its Horizon 2020 research program, set to run in the European Union (EU) from 2014 to 2020 and disburse €80 billion (US$98.3 billion). 

In this atmosphere, Oalib ( see www.oalib.net) actively helps to search and use scholar literature, in broad disciplines: science, technologies, economics, engineering, and emerging disciplines.

Oalib in line with US Open Access policy

White House announces new US open-access policy. In a long-awaited leap forward for open access, the US government said on 22 Feb, 2013 that publications from taxpayer-funded research should be made free to read after a year’s delay — expanding a policy that has, until now, applied only to biomedical science. The policy applies to all federal agencies that spend more than US$100 million on research and development, and is likely to double the number of articles made public each year.

Oalib ( www.oalib.net) wholly stands by open-access policy and is pursuing to deepen implement of open-access. The aim of open-access is to have citizens have fair access to public scientific researches which are funded by taxes they paid. Under this idea oalib releases OA library search engine in 2013(see www.oalib.net). Oalib provides a web page to search for research articles. You can get results in all disciplines and advanced research outcomes with  key words. All results retrieved by the engine are displayed in the same format that you can find the similar information in the same place between items with information of titles, authors, abstracts, full texts, dois, resources and other relevant information. You can also deal with them in batch.

How to use oalib?

You can use oalib (www.oalib.net) search engine by entering key words to retrieve information including full text, abstracts, authors, reference, or other information. You can also add author names and other Words to tell the search engine return more valid and precise results.

For example, searching “arthur” you can get all titles by arthur. You can also search names in the form of initials.

Likely, you can search your key words contained in titles, abstracts, authors or all of them by marking corresponding boxes bellow the search bar.

Why is Oalib?

OA is a trend. OA was proposed in the context of traditional model being denounced. 34,000 researchers boycotted their journals in joint names unless those journals agreed to provide Open Access to their articles. They realized subscription and pay-per-view journals will not only block communication among scientific research and development community but also disadvantageous to disseminate knowledge they had found. In recent decades, universities, libraries, institutes, publishers and other academic institutions are converting into OA.

OA usually turn up in two patterns: Open Access journals and Self-Archiving.

An Open Access journal is the same as a traditional journal except it permits anyone to use, copy, and transfer the full text of it. Self-Archiving is that publisher allows you to place your article in a repository or place it on a personal server so that users can have access to it online.

Oalib is a new feature of Open Access to facilitate academic exchange. There would be thousands of Open Access articles in hundreds of formats of over the world which reveals the difficulty in gaining full access to all of them. On the basis of google engine and other search engine, OA library is committed to gathering free of charge papers and documents of high quality for scholars worldwide.(from www.oalib.net)

OALIB

Oalib, A new OA repository, launched in 2012, offers a free service page to anyone wherever only he or she can be accessible to web. Its web site is www.oalib.net. More than 170,000 copies of OA articles are available through oalib search.

Oalib, unlike other repositories, compile OA papers in all aspects of science disciplines and advanced research branches. Now the quantity of this data information increases in a high rate per day.

Produced by a supporter and practitioner with Open Access, oalib is a platform to disseminate knowledge, and promote communication.

Anyone using this service will not have trouble with legal problem only the usage is legal. And anyone who finds his or her right infringed in relation with oalib, please contact with service@oalib.net.