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American Scientist Open Access Forum
8800+ messages on open access [archives]

Beall’s List of Predatory Journals (Scholarlyoa)
Survey of hundreds of questionable scholarly open access publishers. The original list was discontinued in January 2017 , but soon succeeded by the “Stop Predatory Journals” website

Berlin Conferences
Conferences on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (Max Planck Gesellschaft, annual)

Berlin Declaration
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (October 22, 2003)

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
Summary of April 11, 2003 Meeting on Open Access Publishing

Budapest Open Access Initiative (OSI)
Budapest, December 1-2, 2001

CLIR: Council on Library and Information Resources
Expanding access to information …

COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories
Greater visibility and application of research through global networks of Open Access repositories

Creative Commons
Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world

DSpace (MIT)
Digital library system for universities

Digital Agenda for Europe (EC)
A Europe 2020 Initiative

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
Making it easier to find information

HIFA 2015: Health Care Information for All by 2015
Global campaign for free health care information for developing countries

How Can I Share It?
Enhancing scholarly sharing

ICML 9 / CRICS 7: Declaracao de Salvador
Salvador, Bahia, September 20-23, 2005

ICOLC: International Coalition of Library Consortia

IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations
International Federation of Library Associations

IFLA: Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation
Open Access Position of the International Federation of Library Associations

INASP: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications

Journal of Electronic Publishing (University of Michigan Press)
Forum on electronic publishing issues

LIBLICENCE: Licensing Digital Information – Developing Nations Initiatives (Yale University Library)
Survey of developing countries related initiatives on electronic access to the literature

Lean Library (Sage)
Library access browser extension

Lockss Project (Stanford University Library)
Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe

Nature: Access to the Literature
Electronic Access to the Scientific Literature – Various Viewpoints

Open Access Belgium
Promoting open science – Belgian issues

Open Access Chronology (Marie Lebert)
A timeline of open access history

Open Access Directory (OAD)
Central Wiki with all kinds of open access related informations

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
Open access publishers

Open Access Success Stories
Open access stories

Open Access Week
A global event promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research

Open Archives Initiative
Santa Fé Convention, etc.

Open Content Alliance
Building a digital archive of global content for universal access

Open Repository (BioMed Central)
DSpace based open access institutional repository services from BioMed Central

OpenAIRE
Open access in Europe. Over 5,000 repositories

PKP: Public Knowledge Project (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Overview of open journal systems

ROARMAP
Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies

ROMEO (SHERPA, UK)
Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

Research 4life
Information about Hinari, Agora, Oare and Ardi

Richard Poynder on the state of Open Access
and other OA related blogs

SCHOLarly Kitchen
What’s hot and cooking in scholarly publishing

SCHOLarly Open Access (UK)
Critical Analysis of Scholarly Open Access Publishing. Featuring Jeffrey Beale’s List of Predatory Publishers

SCHOLarly Societies Project (University of Waterloo)
Information about scholarly societies across the world

SCIDEVNET: Science and Development Network
Science and development network

SHERPA (UK)
Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access

SPARC Europe
European branch of SPARC

SPARC: Open Access Newsletter (Peter Suber)
Formerly: The Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter

SPARC: Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
“Returning science to the scientists”

UNESCO Open Access Curriculum
Curriculum for Library Schools (4 modules) + for Researchers (5 modules)

UnPayWall
Open access database for over 20.000.000 scholarly articles

Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science
Free access to the scientific literature

Widernet: Casting a Wider Net
Improving digital communication for people in developing countries