Open Access and Creative Commons

This 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.

The directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.

A coalition of patient groups, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, publishers, and health promotion organizations that support barrier-free access to taxpayer-funded research.

Transforming 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.

The 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 is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

Contains a FAQ as well as the SPARC Author Addendum Online.

The coalition believes, "that no student should be denied access to research they need because their institution cannot afford the often high cost of access."