Open Access Manuscripts Collection Germany

Open Access Manuscripts Collection: SLUB Dresden

The SLUB Dresden’s manuscript collection contains over 448 Islamic manuscripts (196 Ottoman, 184 Arabic, 68 Persian). Following clashes with the Ottomans in the Balkan region, these manuscripts arrived in Europe and were acquired in the 18th and 19th centuries from collections of nobility and scholarly estates. In the 19th century, a large number of Tibetan (438) and Mongolian (58) manuscripts were purchased. Other Oriental manuscripts, i.e. Chinese (18), Japanese (3), Indonesian (9), Sanskrit (1), Hebraic (10) and Ethiopian (4), were bestowed upon the library by private persons.

Extraordinary Volumes

• Kitab-i Dede Korkut (Mscr.Dresd.Ea.86): The only fully preserved manuscript narrating national epic of the Oguzes, a nomadic Turkish tribe.
• Mulana Fuzûli, Benk u Bâde (Mscr.Dresd.Eb.362): An Ottoman poem, written on rose paper, narrating a dispute about rank between wine and hash (cannabis).
• Kemāl Paša-Zāde: Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân (Mscr.Dresd.Eb.391): The story of the Ottomans in a two-volume manuscript with 25 depictions of cities, fortifications and harbor facilities.
• Seyyid Loqmān, Qiyā-fet al-insānīyeh fī shemā’il othmanīyeh (Mscr.Dresd.Eb.373): Book of the Ottoman Characteristics, containing 12 portraits of Turkish sultans.
• Machsor mecholl haschana (Mscr.Dresd.A.46.a): Jewish prayer book for the High Holidays, in Southern German handwriting from the end of the 13th century. Further information

The SLUB Dresden’s manuscript collection includes medieval codices and manuscripts from the time before the invention of printing as well as German and foreign manuscripts of the early modern and modern ages.

16th to the 19th century manuscripts are the main focus of the collection. So-called Saxonica are strongly represented, i.e., chronicles, regional history collectanea, literary manuscripts, biographical and genealogical records, literature of the Saxon court and nobility, as well as collections of letters.

In addition, the collection is enhanced by 305 written literary estates of artists, scientists, writers and musicians of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century who had some relation to Saxony.

http://www.slub-dresden.de/en/collections/manuscripts/

National Library of Australia: Open Publish

       

National Library of Australia: Open Publish

The National Library of Australia's open access journal service This service is hosted on Open Journal Systems (OJS). This is an open access journal management and publishing system that assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing.

The National Library of Australia hosts this online, open access journal publishing service.

Journals

• » The ANZTLA EJournal
• » Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology (AJE)
• » Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
• » Australian Journal of Adoption
• » Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
• » Australian Studies
• » Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
• » Labour and Management in Development
• » National Library of Australia Staff Papers
• » Reviews in Australian Studies

About this Publishing System

Ba'th Party Records Collected by the Iraq Memory Foundation

Ba'th Party Records Collected by the Iraq Memory Foundation IMF

More than ten million digitized page images and fifteen hundred video files collected by the Iraq Memory Foundation (IMF) from the Ba'th Regional Command headquarters and other sources are housed in the Hoover Archives. This vast array of digital files illuminates political conditions in, and governance of, Iraq during Saddam Hussein's regime. The materials are divided into two collections according to origin. The larger collection, which consists of documents created by the Regional Command of the Hiẓb al-Ba'th al-'Arabī al-Ishtirākī (Ba'th Party) and other administrative and security agencies during the Ba'th Party’s reign in Iraq, is accordingly titled the Hiẓb al-Ba'th al-'Arabī al-Ishtirākī records, 1968–2003. A smaller set of video files and printed matter was created by the IMF and other parties after the fall of the Ba'th Party and thus was assigned to a second collection, 

Iraq Memory Foundation issuances, 2003–2009. The Hiẓb al-Ba'th al-'Arabī al-Ishtirākī records contain digitized copies of correspondence, reports, membership and personnel files, judicial and investigatory dossiers, administrative files, school registers, and video recordings. The Iraq Memory Foundation issuances are chiefly videoed oral histories of survivors of Ba'th Party repression and, from Iraqi television, videoed proceedings of Saddam Hussein's trial before the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal. The vast majority of the Ba'th Party records and all of the Iraq Memory Foundation issuances are open for research. Access is obtained via a custom portal on computer workstations in the Hoover Archives reading room, with some printed matter of the Iraq Memory Foundation available as hard copies. Researchers must sign a user agreement before being granted access to these collections. More information is available in the documents listed below.

http://www.iraqmemory.org/en/Doc_3milion.asp

Medknow: Open Access Publisher

                                                    

Medknow: Open Access Publisher

Medknow Publications is one of the largest open access publishers in the world. It publish peer-reviewed, online and print-plus-online journals in medicine on behalf of learned societies and associations. It mainly operate the ‘Platinum’ model of open access publishing, providing immediate free access to online journals with no charge to the author or author's institution for submission, processing or publication.

Medknow has

• 355 Total journals
• 324 Total associations / societies
• 134,355 Total articles
• 125,509 Full text articles
• 24,392 Manuscripts submitted in '15
• 170 Manuscripts submitted on May 9, 2015
• 4,733,488 Articles downloaded in Apr '15
• 131,538 Articles downloaded on May 9, 2015

Explore Further Medknoiw

http://www.medknow.com/

What is Open Access? An Overview

What is Open Access? An Overview

Focusing on Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research Articles and their Preprints

(Peter Suber)

This is an introduction to open access (OA) for those who are new to the concept. Hope it's short enough to read, long enough to be useful, and organized to let you skip around and dive into detail only where you want detail. It doesn't cover every nuance or answer every objection. But for those who read it, it should cover enough territory to prevent the misunderstandings that delayed progress in our early days.

If this overview is still too long, then see my very brief introduction to OA. It's available in 20+ languages and should print out on just one page, depending on your font size. If these pieces are too short, see my other writings on OA, including Open Access (MIT Press, 2012), my book-length introduction to OA. The book home page includes links to OA editions and a continually growing collection of updates and supplements.

http://www.planta.cn/forum/files_planta/what_is_open_accessan_overview_2004_162.pdf

Open Access Oriya Books India

Open Access to Oriya Books - Project OAB

OAOB is a not-for-profit project, initiated by National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Srujanika, Bhubaneswar and Pragati Utkal Sangh, Rourkela India. It disseminates the available information in Oriya language treasured in local libraries and individual collections. The project is made available online to millions of readers worldwide. An open access repository containing resources pertaining to Oriya literature and culture, OAOB provides free access to researchers, scholars, historians, librarians, and the general public at all point in time. 

The mission of the project is to preserve cultural history of Orissa by digitizing old, rare and new literary and other texts written in the Oriya language. The primary focus is to digitize rare and copyright-free Oriya documents (books, texts and manuscripts) which are under deteriorating condition in libraries, archives and individual collections in order to make them openly accessible to all.

Owing to the nature of the project, It also call upon people who could provide us access to their libraries and be part of the mission of free access to Oriya books and promote the idea that knowledge and information should be accessible to all and should be free at all point in time. 

Searc the Open Access Books Repository

http://oaob.nitrkl.ac.in/cgi/search/advanced

AUB ScholarWorks digital repositor

American University of Berut Scholar Works Digital Repository

American University Berut  collects, shares, and persistently makes accessible a variety of AUB scholarly digital research material.

Communities in ScholarWork

• AUB Libraries
• Neighborhood Initiative
• School of Nursing

https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/

Open Access Archives: Iran and Central Asia

Digital Persian Archive - Asnad.org

An Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century

"Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century -A Research Project of the Iranian Studies Division at the Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.

This Project aims at facilitating access to the growing number of available Persian historical deeds and documents, both published and unpublished. It shall allow work on archival material with the help of incorporated facsimiles without recourse to the original - often remote - place of publication or storage.

The Database includes "public" and "private" documents: royal decrees and orders, official correspondence, and shari'a court documents, such as contracts of sale and lease, vaqf deeds, marriage contracts, and court orders. It also serves as a bibliographic reference tool, being a continually updated repertoire of published historical documents.

 Browse and search this Database

http://www.asnad.org/en/

Open Access e-prints

Open Access EPrints

Open Access (OA) is free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.
There are two roads to OA:

(1) the "golden road" of OA journal-publishing , where journals provide OA to their articles (either by charging the author-institution for refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead of charging the user-institution for accessing incoming articles, or by simply making their online edition free for all);

(2) the "green road" of OA self-archiving, where authors provide OA to their own published articles, by making their own eprints free for all.

The two roads to OA should not be confused or conflated; they are complementary. (This site is focussed largely on the green road, because it is the fastest and surest way to reach immediate 100% OA; but the green road might eventually lead to gold too.)
OA self-archiving is not self-publishing; nor is it about online publishing without quality control (peer review); nor is it intended for writings for which the author wishes to be paid, such as books or magazine/newspaper articles. OA self-archiving is for peer-reviewed research, written solely for research impact rather than royalty revenue.

Researchers, their institutions and their funders need to be informed of the benefits of providing Open Access and instructed on how quickly and simply it is done.
Institutional Open Access Repositories need to be created (and registered in ROAR, so as to be seen and emulated by other institutions).
Most important, an OA self-archiving mandate for systematically filling these repositories with their target content needs to be adopted and implemented (and registered, so as to be seen and emulated by other institutions).
An Institutional Repository is the best way to provide OA to research output. Software such as EPrints provides a web-based OAI-compliant IR for free.

http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/

Open Access Jordan

Open Access Collections of the Institut français du Proche-Orient

The Institut français du Proche-Orien ensure the dissemination and valorisation of research in scientific areas invested by the Institute in the Middle Eastern societies (Syria , Lebanon, Jordan , Palestinian Territories, Iraq) in all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences from antiquity to the present day.

SHOCKWAVES ARAB REVOLUTIONS

http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/?lang=en