Links on Open Access
- Brochure on Open AccessThis brochure, produced with the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of College & Research Libraries, makes the case for the open access model of scholarly communication and how it benefits authors, readers, teachers, scholars, and scientists alike.
- Directory of Open Access JournalsThe directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- Open Access DirectoryA compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.
- Alliance for Tax Payer AccessA coalition of patient groups, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, publishers, and health promotion organizations that support barrier-free access to taxpayer-funded research.
- SPARC Resources on Open Access
- Open Access Week Videos
- Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A BibliographyTransforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: Bailey's bibliography presents over 1,100 selected English language scholarly works useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature.
- Writings on Open Access by OA Guru Peter Suber
- OASIS: Open Access to Scholarly Information SourcebookA sourcebook on how to implement Open Access at your institution.
- National Institutes of Health Public AccessThe NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication.
- PLOS: Public Library of SciencePLOS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
- Resources for AuthorsContains a FAQ as well as the SPARC Author Addendum Online.
- For students! The Right to Research CoalitionThe coalition believes, "that no student should be denied access to research they need because their institution cannot afford the often high cost of access."
- For Students! Sparky AwardsSparky Awards is a contest to promote the open exchange of information.
- Supplements to Suber's book Open Access
What is Open Access?
As defined by Budapest Open Access Initiative, "by 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."
Created by Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), here is a three minute video on Open Access 101.
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