How to find open access research publications

This slide deck was used as part of a training to researchers of the YTU and MMU universities in Yangon, Myanmar. The goal was to train researchers without access to research publications that are behing a paywall and with little to no experience with finding open access research articles. This 1-day training consisted of two parts: An online information literacy course for the researchers, in which they learned the basics of finding and evaluating research publications. An explanation of the total body of knowledge that is produced by the scientific community and the role that open science plays in this body of knowledge. The authors advice for the reuse of these publications is as follows: The availability of peer reviewed Open Access articles is changing the landscape for science. A much larger community can use open access peer reviewed scientific literature because this literature is freely available and not behind a paywall. This is not a game changer for those scientist working in organisations with subscriptions to journals, but for all others it is. But do they know of this possibility and do they know how to get the open access version of an article (if available)? Probably not. You as a scientist can help them by providing this presentation to those without subscriptions. Think of scientist in universities without subscriptions (e.g. global south), practitioners, policy advisor, R&D departments of companies, but also your former students after completing their BSc/MSc/PhD. Help spreading the knowledge of open access to increase the number of end users!