Physics Seminar - resources from past semesters

Scholarly articles may be freely available through non-traditional means:

• Some publishers (including the American Chemical Society) are making certain articles available free of charge; others are allowing authors to pay an additional fee to make their specific article in a hybrid journal Open Access. 
• Many universities and some colleges now have institutional repositories where authors may deposit scholarly articles freely viewable by all. Similarly, there are subject repositories offering authors the same option. Keep in mind, however, that the versions available through these repositories may not necessarily be the final, published ones; but they may be post-prints that are very close to the published version.

Therefore, if the Rutgers University Libraries does not subscribe to a journal, before requesting it via interlibrary loan, consider Googling the article title on the off-chance that the article is immediately available through alternative means.

• “Gold” OA journals
  • all content is free
• Hybrid journals
  • some articles are freely available, others are for-fee
• “Green” OA repositories
  • all content is free and can include pre-prints and/or post-prints
    • may be embargoes to access
  • Rutgers's institutional repository:  RUcore
    • ​SOAR (Scholarly Open Access at Rutgers) is where Rutgers, faculty and graduate students are now required to submit their Accepted Manuscripts (AM) if posting the Version of Record is not possible
  • Disciplinary repositories:  arXiv, PubMed Central, and more!