Useful open access resources in physics

Abstract

Open access (OA) publishing is substitute model for the publication of scholarly journals. It makes articles freely available to readers on the internet and covers the costs associated with publication through means other than subscriptions. The main aim of the study was to identify open access resources and to study their actual usefulness in the physics research. This paper discusses different types of open access resources used by physics researchers. The researcher visited many Physics related web sites, and OA forums/blogs for locating open access resources. The enumerate list is prepared focusing mainly on open access journals, Institutional repositories (IR), preprints repository like arXiv, NASA Astrophysics Data Systems (ADS), open access courseware and are discussed along with findings