A Source for Digital Academic Publications

Supporting Open Access research

A site dedicated exclusively to hosting research content in open access, TorrossaOpen, part of the Torrossa digital library, is designed specifically to support the diffusion of academic publishing from some of Europe’s principal research bodies and provide a range of added-value services and functions to its sustaining institutions.

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Participate in an important resource

TorrossaOpen supports the entire scholarly communication community, providing support and services not only for publishers wishing to publish research in open access, but also for institutions and researchers wishing to make their work available and visible internationally.

  • publishers wishing to publish research in open access, particularly in HSS
  • researchers wishing to make their work available and visible internationally
  • students, scholars and library patrons, who benefit from Torrossa’s additional study support tools
  • libraries and research centres that already have access to digital content through Torrossa
  • international databases and Discovery Services, through timely and up-to-date metadata

​Access a growing catalogue

TorrossaOpen provides open access to publications from an increasing number of sources, also including material from publishers already present on the Torrossa platform:

  • quality collection of scholarly value
  • well-known publishing houses
  • highly specialised original language publishers

E-mail notifications keep you up to date on new additions to the catalogue.

Visit oa.torrossa.com to view the catalogue. 

​Rely on a solid infrastructure

Constantly updated in line with new implementations released for the entire Torrossa platform, TorrossaOpen guarantees institutions and users the best possible technological support for viewing and downloading research. As with the Torrossa Digital Library, content is preserved using long-term archives such as CLOCKSS and Portico. This means we are able to offer:

  • platform maintenance
  • compliance with accessibility standards
  • technical support
  • institution-wide and federated access to additional features
  • collaboration with search engines, link resolvers and long-term archives 

​Enjoy a range of benefits

We are pleased to say that a number of institutions have joined us in sustaining this venture, recognising the importance of supporting open access and recognizing the necessity to contribute to a fair long term sustainability plan.

TorrossaOpen offers sustaining libraries and institutions many additional functions and services, developed precisely for use within research institutions, including:

  • quality metadata
  • searching within the full text
  • integration with Discovery Services
  • indexing in Google Scholar
  • MARC records
  • OpenURLs
  • identifiers (ISNI, ORCID, DOI, NBN) to ensure interoperability
  • COUNTER statistics
  • compatibility with leading citations software