Open Access Resources
- Directories
- Open Access Initiatives
- Open Access Publishers & Archives
- Useful Links
- Articles
- Powerpoints
Directories
Directory of Open Access Journals [ http://www.doaj.org/] This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1067 journals in the directory. Hosted by Lund University Libraries.Google Directory of Open Access Resources - [ http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Open_Access_Resources/]
Open Access Initiatives
SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition , [http://www.arl.org/sparc/ ] is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations built as a constructive response to market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system. SPARC develops partnerships with publications seeking to produce quality open access alternatives. International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP) - [http://www.icaap.org/] - a research and development organization devoted to the advancement of electronic scholarly communication. Our mission includes technological support, publication, and enhancement of scholarly journals and educational resources, with the goals of greater accessibility, recognition and communication within the academic community.
Budapest Open Access Initiative [http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml] -- "aims to speed progress in making research articles from all academic fields freely available on the Internet. It recommends two complementary strategies: self-archiving, whereby scholars deposit their refereed journal articles in electronic archives; and open access journals. The initiative was launched in February 2002 as a result of a meeting in Budapest organized by the Open Society Institute, part of the Soros Foundation. The meeting attendees - some of the key players in the open access movement - signed a declaration that now invites signatures from individuals and organizations who wish to pledge their support to the open access movement."
Some Open Access Publishers & Article Archives
HighWire Press [http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl] remains the single largest source of free fulltext science articles. Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO ). [http://www.scielo.br/] -- a Latin American open access initiative. It's primary function is to serve as a common repository for science articles published in journals from developing nations, particularly from Latin America and the Carribbean. BioMed Central [http://www.biomedcentral.com/] Started in 2000; Has more than 100 titles, 331 institutional members
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) [http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/] Funded by 9 mil grant; first journal, PLoS Biology launched Oct 2003
Useful Links
Open Access News News from the open access movement Peter Super's Lists Related to The Open Access Movement It seems that e verything you need to know about Open Access is linked here. [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm] Journal Inflation Stats at the Association of Research Libraries [http://www.arl.org/stats/]
BioMed Central's rebuttal to commonly held myths about problems with Open Access see: http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/myths.pdf
Peter Super's List of University actions against high journal prices Project RoMEO (Rights MEtadata for Open Archiving) Self-archiving terms from many publishers. Investigated the rights issues surrounding the 'self-archiving' of research in the UK academic community, completing its work in 2003.
Articles
"The `free access' debate" . by R. Ramachandran Frontline 21(2) http://flonnet.com/fl2102/stories/20040130000807900.htm
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey [http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html] A selective bibliography of over 1,800 articles, books, and other sources regarding scholarly electronic publishing efforts since 1996.
PowerPoints
Presentation on Open Access given by Allan Scherlen to La Asociación Mexicana de Bibliotecarios, A. C. (AMBAC) in Cancun, Mexico, May 14, 2004 [English]
Presentation entitled, "Collection Development Librarians Confront the Open Access Movement," by Allan Scherlen presented to the ALCTS/CMDS Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Discussion Group - ALA Orlando 2004
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