Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
v.7 no.1 (Spring 2006)
Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianshipv.7 no.1 (Spring 2006) |
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Compiled by Paul G. Haschak, Associate Professor and Collection Development Librarian
Linus A. Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University
phaschak@selu.edu
Since World War II, we have seen a proliferation of scholarly materials. In particular, there has been a tremendous growth in the size and cost of the primary journal literature.
With prices continuing to rise at a rate greater than the general price index, the current scholarly communication system is becoming more and more unaffordable.
The rise in the cost of serial subscriptions has forced academic libraries over the last several decades to cancel existing serial titles, add fewer and fewer new serial titles, and buy fewer and fewer books.
In is apparent, that the crisis in the scholarly communication system not only threatens the well being of libraries, but also it threatens our academic faculty’s ability to do world-class research.
With current technologies, we now have, for the first time in history, the tools necessary to effect change ourselves.
We must do everything in our power to change the current scholarly communication system and promote open access to scholarly articles.
“Language Related Open Archives: Impact on
Scholarly Communities and Academic Librarianship” by Jung-ran Park
http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v05n02/park_j01.htm
“The Next Step in Scholarly Communication:
Is the Traditional Journal Dead?” by Jeanne Galvin.
http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v05n01/galvin_j01.htm
“Open
Access in the Real World: Confronting
Economic and Legal Reality” by Rick Anderson
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/april04/openaccess.htm
“Open Access to Scientific Publications: An
Analysis of the Barriers to Change” by B. C. Bjork
http://informationr.net/ir/9-2/paper170.html
“Scholarly Communication: Issues and Challenges,”
slide show by Mary M. Case, ARL Office of Scholarly Communication.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/CLMD/SCHOLCOMM/CASE6-8/sld001.htm
“Scholars Under Siege: The Scholarly
Communication Crisis,” from ARL, ACRL, SPARC
http://www.createchange.org/librarians/issues/quick.html
NEAR (National
Electronic Article Repository) Proposal, Oct. 1998, “Moving with Dispatch
to Resolve the Scholarly Communication Crisis:
From Here to NEAR” by David E. Shulenburger, ARL Proceedings 133. “My proposal is simple: We must find a way of requiring that when a
manuscript prepared by a U.S. faculty member is accepted for publication by a
scholarly journal, a portion of the copyright of that manuscript be retained
for inclusion in a single, publicly accessible repository, after a lag
following publication in the journal.”
http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/133/shulenburger.html
Budapest Open Access
Initiative (BOAI), Dec. 2001, from a meeting convened in Budapest by the
Open Society Institute (OSI) and their resulting statement, Feb. 2002, “To
achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two
complementary strategies, I.
Self-Archiving . . . II. Open
–access Journals . . . ”
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
Glasgow
Declaration, approved by the Governing Board of IFLA March 2002,
proclaimed by the council of IFLA (International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions) Aug. 2002, latest revision Sept, 2004. “The Glasgow Declaration on Libraries,
Information Services and Intellectual Freedom.” “IFLA proclaims the fundamental right of human beings both to
access and to express information without restriction.”
http://www.ifla.org/faife/policy/iflastat/gldeclar-e.html
Bethesda Statement on
Open Access Publishing, June 2003, from a meeting of major private fund
givers of biomedical research, at the headquarters of the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
“The purpose of this document is to stimulate discussion within the
biomedical research community on how to proceed, as rapidly as possible, to the
widely held goal of providing open access to the primary scientific
literature.”
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
ACRL (Association of
College and Research Libraries) Principles and Strategies for the Reform of
Scholarly Communication, approved June 2003, last revised Nov, 2005, from
the ACRL division of the American Library Association, principles and
strategies listed under the headings “Scholarly Communication Defined,”
“Scholarly Communication in Crisis,” “The ACRL Scholarly Communications
Initiative,” “Principles Supported,” and “Strategies supported.”
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/principlesstrategies.htm
Wellcome Trust
Position Statement, Oct. 2003, updated Sept. 2005, by a U.K.-based
independent research-funding charity “in support of open and unrestricted
access to published research.”
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html
Berlin Declaration,
Oct. 2003, conference of major European fund givers on open access to knowledge
in the sciences and humanities. “Our
mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the information is
not made widely and readily available to society. New possibilities of knowledge dissemination not only through the
classical form but also and increasingly through the open access paradigm via
the Internet have to be supported.”
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
Geneva Declaration of
Principles and Plan of Action, U.N. Summit on the Information Society, World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS), WSIS Phase I, Dec. 2003, Geneva, “Declaration of
Principles. Building the Information
Society: a global challenge in the new
Millennium.” Includes “Our common
Vision of the Information Society,” “An Information Society for All: Key Principles,” and “Towards an Information
Society for All Based on Shared Knowledge.”
“Plan of Action.”
http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1161.asp
(Available Languages and Formats)
http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html
(Declaration of Principles)
http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/poa.html
(Plan of Action)
OECD (Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development) Declaration, Science, Technology
and Innovation for the 21st Century. Meeting of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological
Policy at Ministerial Level, Jan. 2004.
Includes “access to research data” statement.” “Ministers recognised that fostering broader, open access to and
wide use of research data will enhance the quality and productivity of science
systems worldwide.” See Annex 1,
“Declaration on access to research data from public funding.”
http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,2340,en_2649_201185_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html
IFLA Statement,
Feb. 2004, “IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research
Documentation.” IFLA “is committed to
ensuring the widest possible access to information for all peoples in
accordance with the principles expressed in the Glasgow Declaration of
Libraries, Information Services and Intellectual Freedom.”
http://www.ifla.org/V/cdoc/open-access04.html
Washington D.C.
Principles, March 2004, for Free Access to Science. “Not-for-Profit Publishers Commit to
Providing Free Access to Research.”
http://www.dcprinciples.org/statement.htm
Australian Group of
Eight (Vice-Chancellors) Statement, May 2004, “Statement on open access to
scholarly information.”
https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/754.html
Berlin 2 Open Access,
May 2004, “Steps Toward Implementation of the Berlin Declaration.” Conference synopsis
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-cern/
UK Government Science
and Technology Committee, July 2004, see “Accessibility of Research.”
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39902.htm
Scottish
Declaration on Open Access, Oct. 2004, last updated Feb. 2005, OATS,
Open Access Team for Scotland. “We
believe that the interests of Scotland will be best served by the rapid
adoption of open access to scientific and research literature.”
http://www.eprints.org/events/berlin3/outcomes.html
Berlin 3 Open Access,
Agreed Recommendations, March 2005, at the University of Southampton,
UK. “Progress in Implementing the
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and
Humanities.” “In order to implement the
Berlin Declaration, institutions should implement a policy to: 1. Require their researchers to deposit a
copy of all their published articles in an open access repository and 2.
Encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access
journals where a suitable journal exists (and provide the support to enable
that to happen).”
http://www.eprints.org/events/berlin3/outcomes.html
http://www.eprints.org/events/berlin3/program.html
Lawrence Lessig Pledge—Never Again, March 2005. “I will not agree to publish in any academic journal that does
not permit me the freedoms of at least a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.”
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002780.shtml
The National Institute of Health (NIH) Policy on Enhancing Public Access
to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (Public Access
Policy) took effort May 2005. It
“requests and strongly encourages all investigators to make their NIH-funded
peer-reviewed, author’s final manuscript available to other researches and the
public through the NIH National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed Central
(PMC) immediately after the final date of journal publication.”
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/overview.htm
Research Councils UK’s (RCUK) Proposed Policy on Access to Research Outputs, June,
2005.
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf
Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property, Oct.
2005, published by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures and Commerce. Endorses open access.
http://www.adelphicharter.org/adelphi_charter_document.asp
WSIS, Phase 2, Final Documents, Tunis, Nov. 2005, “reiterate our
unequivocal support for the Geneva Declaration of Principles and Plan of
Action.”
http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/index/html#documents
Fellows of the Royal Society Open Letter to Lord Martin Rees, Dec. 2005, protesting the Royal Society’s position statement on open access: (1) Royal Society’s position statement: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3882 and (2) Open letter to Lord Rees: http://www.frsopenletter.org/
CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world’s largest particle physics center)--Action on Open Access, Dec. 2005, ”representatives of several major physics publishers, European particle physics laboratories, learned societies, funding agencies and authors from Europe and the US, came together for the first time to promote open access publishing.”
http://cern.ch/OA/20051207/20051207_agenda.html
(Details of the Meeting)
http://open-access.web.cern.ch/Open-Access/
(CERN Action on Open Access)
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)—ERCIM
Statement, January 2006.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw64/ercim-oa.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_01_22_fosblogarchive.html#113803575485744459
93rd Indian Science Congress (Hyderabad)—January 2006 “recommendation for
an Optimal National Open Access Policy, which includes a call for all
publicly-funded research in India be deposited in OA repositories.”
https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/2713.html
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_01_15_fosblogarchive.html#113777875660920227
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is an “alliance of organizations
representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions
that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research.”
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) main mission is to "advance
humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social
sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies
devoted to such studies."
http://www.acls.org
ARROW—Australian Research Repositories Online to the World. “The ARROW project will identify and test software or solutions
to support best practice institutional digital repositories comprising e-print,
digital theses and electronic publishing.”
http://arrow.edu.au
ArXiv “is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear
science, computer science, and quantitative biology.”
http://arxiv.org
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) “serves,
represents and strengthens the community of not-for-profit publishers,
demonstrating their essential role in the future of international academic and
professional communication.
http://www.alpsp.org
Author’s Addendum “is a form you use to amend the document that your
publisher asks you to sign.” “By using
this form you “retain the right to make your article available in a
non-commercial open digital archive on the Web.”
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html
Berkeley Electronic Press “produces tools to improve scholarly
communication. These tools provide
innovative and effective means of content production and dissemination.”
http://www.bepress.com
BioMed Central “is an independent publishing house committed to providing
immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.”
http://www.biomedcentral.com
Canada’s International Development Research Center (IDRC) establishes an OA
depository.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-92447-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
CLOCKSS Project serves as a failsafe repository for published scholarly
content.
http://www.lockss.org/clockss
Create Change “has as its core goal to make scholarly research as
accessible as possible to scholars all over the world, to their students, and
to others who might derive value from it.”
http://www.createchange.org/librarians/intro/aboutcc.html
Creative Commons “is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright
licenses for creative works.”
http://creativecommons.org
Daedalus—Data-providers
for Academic E-content and the Disclosure of Assets for Learning, Understanding
and Scholarship.
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus/index.html
ePrints UK Project
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/
eScholarship
repository program “facilitates innovation and supports
experiementation in the production and dissemination of scholarship. Through the use of innovative technology,
the program is working to improve all aspects of scholarly communication,
including its creation, peer review, management, dissemination, and
preservation.”
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship
http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html
HighWire Press “hosts the largest repository of free, full-text,
peer-reviewed content.”
http://highwire.stanford.edu
Information Access Alliance believes that “access to a broad array of research
information is critical to the health and wealth of society.”
http://www.informationaccess.org
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP)
is “focused on creating technologies to
facilitate sophisticated delivery of educational content.”
http://www.icaap.org
Internet Archive “is building a digital library of Internet sites and other
cultural artifacts in digital form.”
http://www.archive.org
OAI-PMH, the Open Archive Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, UK. See Project RoMEO.
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
Open Access Now campaigns “for freedom of research information.”
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/links/
Open Access Working Group
http://www.arl.org/sparc/oa/oawg.html
Open Archives Initiative (OAI) “develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to
facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.”
http://www.openarchives.org
Open Content Alliance “represents the collaborative efforts of a group of
cultural, technology, non-profit, and governmental organizations from around
the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized
text and multimedia content.”
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/faq.html
Project DARE (Digital Academic Repositories)/DAREnet “gives digital access
to academic research output in the Netherlands.”
http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/home
http://www.darenet.nl/nl/page/language.view/home
Project DARE launches
NARCIS (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System) as
a gateway to Dutch scientific research; and DARLIN (Dutch Archive for Library and Information Science), a
new OA repository for Dutch publications in library and information science.
http://www.narcis.info/narcis/?language=en (NARCIS)
http://www.nvb-darlin.nl/en/ (DARLIN)
Project RoMEO—Rights Metadata for Open Archiving—This 2003 project
investigated “the rights issues surrounding the “self-archiving” of research in
the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative’s Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting.”
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html
Project SHERPA “is investigating issues in the future of scholarly
communication and publishing. In
particular, it is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number
of research universities.”
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
Public Knowledge “works for open access to (1) taxpayer-funded research and
(2) research that scientists and scholars consent to publish without payment.”
http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/openaccess
Public Knowledge Project “is a federally funded
research initiative located at the University of British Columbia and Simon
Fraser University on the west coast of Canada. It seeks to improve the
scholarly and public quality of academic research through innovative online
environments.”
http://pkp.ubc.ca/
Public Library of Science “is a nonprofit organization of scientists and
physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a
public resource.”
http://www.plos.org/about/index.html
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org
PubMed Central “is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature at
the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH’s
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of
Medicine (NLM). With PubMed Central,
NLM is taking the lead in preserving and maintaining unrestricted access to the
electronic literature, just as it has done for decades with the printed
biomedical literature.”
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/about/openaccess.html
SciELO—Scientific Electronic Library Online
http://www.scielo.org/index.php?lang=en
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) “is an alliance
of universities, research libraries, and organizations.” “SPARC serves as a catalyst for action,
helping to create systems that expand information dissemination and use in a
networked digital environment while responding to the needs of academe.”
http://www.arl.org/sparc/home/index.asp
TARDIS--Targeting
Academic Research for Deposit and Disclosure
http://tardis.eprints.org
“At the Speed of Thought” by Mike Sosteric (founder of the ICAAP)
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/200/sosteric.html
“The Case for Institutional Repositories: A
SPARC Position Paper” by Raym Crow
http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html
“Create Change” brochure
http://www.createchange.org/resources/CreateChange2003.pdf
“Declaring Independence: Returning Scientific Publishing to Scientists” by Allison Buckholtz
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/buckholtz.html
“Electronic Journals: The Grand Information Future?” by Mike Sosteric
http://www.sociology.org/content/vol002.002/sosteric_d.html
“For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and Why to
Free the Refereed Research Literature Online through Author/Institution
Self-Archiving, Now” by Stevan Harnad
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm
“Freedom from the Press” by Mike Sosteric
http://technologysource.org/article/freedom_from_the_press/
“The Function of the Electronic Journal (EJ) in the Academic Process: An Appraisal” by William W.
Bostock
http://thecraft.icaap.org/content/2001/bostock/bostock.html
“Gaining Independence”
http://www.arl.org/sparc/GI/
“Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal”
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/oaj_supplement_0703.pdf
“Igniting Change in Scholarly Communication:
SPARC, Its’ Past, Present, and Future” by Mary M. Case, Director,
Office of Scholarly Communication, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
http://www.arl.org/sparc/pubs/docs/SPARC_advances.pdf
“Open Access” brochure
http://www.createchange.org/resources/OpenAccess.pdf
“Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the
Means of Production of Knowledge” by Stevan Harnad
http://cogprints.org/1580/00/harnad91.postgutenberg.html
“Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: How to Get there from Here”
by Stevan Harnad
http://cogprints.org/1689/00/thes.html
“A strategy for open access to society publications” by Jim Pitman
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/pitman/strategy.html
“What you can do to promote open access” by Peter Suber
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/do.htm
“Where Scholars Fear to Tread: The Inertia of
Academic ePublication” by Timothy McGettigan
http://thecraft.icaap.org/content/2001/mcgettigan.html
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
http://dublincore.org
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata
http://www.fgdc.gov/index.html
MARC21
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/project/corc
Open Language Archives Community (OLAC)
http://www.language-archives.org/
The Open Group
http://www.opengroup.org/declaration/declaration.htm
Archimede–A Canadian software solution for institutional repositories.
http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/archimede/index.en.html
ARNO–Academic Research in the Netherlands Online.
http://www.uba.uva.nl/arno
CDSware—“CDSware, the integrated digital library system, is a suite
of applications which provides the framework and tools for building and
managing an autonomous digital library server.”
http://cdsware.cern.ch/cdsware/overview.html
Digital Commons—ProQuest—Launch OA Repositories
http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/digital_commons@.shtml
http://il.proquest.com/products_umi/digitalcommons/
DiVA, the Digital Scientific Archive (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet in Swedish)
http://www.diva-portal.org/about.xsql
DPubS—Digital Publishing System—“DPubS (Digital Publishing System) is
a powerful and flexible open-source system for publishing digital documents.”
http://dpubs.org/
DSpace—“The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores,
indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material.”
http://www.dspace.org
EPrints—“The EPrints software creates OAI-Compliant Archives.”
http://www.eprints.org
ePublishing Toolkit—“The ePublishing Toolkit is a software
package providing tools to help in publishing scientific content on the web.”
Fedora—“Fedora open source software gives organizations a flexible
service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital
content. At its core is a powerful digital object model that supports multiple
views of each digital object and the relationships among digital objects.”
http://www.fedora.info
GAPWorks—“GAPworks is the online publication system developed in the GAP project (funded by the
German Research Foundation, DFG).”
Hyperjournal—“The HyperJournal is an Open Source software application
which enables on-line as well as printed publishing in an innovative and
significantly cost-cutting way.”
iTor –Tools and Technologies for Open Repositories, Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information
Services.
http://www.i-Tor.org/en/
List of OAI Tools
http://www.openarchives.org/tools/tools.html
LOCKSS Program, open source peer to peer software.
http://lockss.stanford.edu
MyCoRe –A core bundle of oftware tools developed at the University of Essen.
http://www.mycore.de/eng/index.html
OpenACS—“OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System)
is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications.”
Open Journal Systems—“Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal
management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public
Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve
access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing
process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing.”
http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/
OPUS –Online Publications of the University of Stuttgart.
http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/index.php?la-en
Scholarly Exchange, the Free Open-Source Journal Publishing Platform
http://www.scholarlyexchange.com
SOPS—“SciX Open Publishing Services (SOPS) is software that allows setting up various
on-line scientific publishing media.”
http://www.scix.net/sops.htm
Creative Commons Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
“An Education in ©opyright Law: A Primer
for Cyberspace” by Robert N. Diotalevi
http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres13n1/
“Stealing the Goose: Copyright and Learning”
by Rory McGreal
http://www.irrodl.org/content/v5.3/mcgreal.html
Piet Zwart Institute, Open Content Licenses
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/lliang/open_content_guide
Publisher Copyright Policies and Self-Archiving
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
“Free Access to Open Materials for Teaching, Learning and Research”
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/openeducation
Timeline of the Open Access Movement, written and revised by Peter Suber,
Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College and Open Access Project
Director, formerly called the Timeline of
the Free Online Scholarship Movement
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers
http://www.ams.org/global-preprints/index.html
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
“Electronic Collection,” Library
and Archives Canada, formerly the National Library of Canada
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/e-coll-e/inet-loc-e.htm
Free Full Text
http://www.freefulltext.com
Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
HighWire Press, Stanford University:
Free Online Full-text Articles
http://www.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl
OpenDOAR—the
Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org
NewJour –Search
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/search.html
ROAR--Registry of Open Access Repositories, formerly called Tim Brody’s
Institutional Archives Registry
http://archives.eprints.org
Szczepanski’s List of OA Journals
http://www.his.se/templates/vanligwebbsida1.aspx?id=20709
American Scientist Open Access Forum:
A complete Hyper-mail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005) is available at:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
Post discussion to:
american-scientist-open-access-forum@amsci.org
Budapest Open Access Initiative Forum
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml
OA Librarian
http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com
Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
PLEIADI: Portal for the Italian Electronic Literature in Open and Institutional Archives
http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/
SPARC Open Access Forum
http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/index.html#forum
SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/index.html
“Open Access Bibliography: Liberating
Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals” by
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.pdf
“Open Access Webliography” by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb.oaw.htm
“Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography” by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html