Open access sources are digital, free, and available online. Scholars may publish books directly with open access publishers, or they may add books that they publish with other academic presses to open access repositories. Likewise, scholars can publish in open access journals, or they can make their articles published in subscription-based journals open access by depositing them in an open access repository. In each of these cases, the scholarly articles and books are peer reviewed.
Some but not all of the material in the open access repositories linked below is included in the UConn Library catalog. These open access repositories include articles and books primarily written in Spanish and Portuguese.
Dialnet
Dialnet is a database maintained by the the University of La Rioja. It includes journal articles, book chapters, and theses published in Spain with subjects including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts.
CLACSO Virtual Library
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) publishes open access books focused on Latin America. The CLASCO Virtual Library is a digital repository that offers free access to more than 100,000 texts. CLASCO titles published between 2018 and 2020 are also available via the Books at JSTOR Open Access program and appear in the UConn Library.
LatinREV
LatinRev is a cooperative network of open access academic journals supported by the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Argentina (FLACSO). It includes humanities and social sciences journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal, and Angola.
