Scholary Communication  

Chris McManus, a researcher at UCL, describes why research needs to be openly shared (on You Tube).

Full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly open access journals. Presently, there are 4,824 journals in the directory.

Guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the open access movement.

Stuart Shieber, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University, discusses open access at Harvard. (on You Tube)

A conversation with Sydney Verba, Director of Harvard University Libraries (on You Tube)

Open access to 592,209 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.

U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Support of advocacy efforts to transform the scholarly communication landscape.

Conference on open access to knowledge in the sciences and humanities. 20 - 22 Oct 2003, Berlin.

A meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2, 2001.

Examines new opportunities in scholarly communication. Developed by ARL and SPARC.

Software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories.

Provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools.

Statement/language suggestions for scholar authors to add to their manuscript contracts. University of Kansas.

From Texas A & M University.

An STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model.

International open access press publishing in the humanities, specializing in critical and cultural theory.

Partnership of faculty, librarians, and graduate students dedicated to exploring whether and how new technologies can be used to improve the professional and public value of scholarly research.

Publisher of open access scienific and medical journals.

International alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.

Open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard.

Access to Cornell-related digital content.

Access to the research and scholarship of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.

Listing of open access repositories around the world.

Developing open-access institutional repositories in universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research.

Find a summary of policies given by various research funders as part of their grant awards.

Find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.

Search service for the full-text of material held in UK open access repositories.

Information on establishing, accessing, or just learning about online repositories.