Open Access
Open Access encourages the unrestricted sharing of scholarly research for the advancement of knowledge. The philosophy of Open Access was articulated in 2002 in the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Along with the NDLTD, many organizations today are proponents of expanding free online access to publicly funded research. Linked below are relevant websites for some advocates of Open Access and a few general sources of information.
Also see NDLTD's Intellectual Property and Copyright resources.
Open Access for ETDs by Peter Suber, Nov. 2010
General
What is Open Access?—a concise explanation from the University of Michigan Library
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)—a social tagging project to capture OA developments comprehensively, in real time
Open Access Directory (OAD)—a vast wiki site of information and links
OpenDOAR—a directory of academic Open Access repositories, which is carefully researched by project staff, and allows for searches of repositories and contents
For more background on Open Access, see Peter Suber's lengthy Open Access Overview, A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access, and his discontinued blog, Open Access News.
Organizations
- BioMed Central, Open Access Charter
- Create Change
- Creative Commons
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- JISC—Open Access Statement
- Open Archivangelism—a blog by Stevan Harnad
- Right to Research Coalition
- Science Commons
- SPARC—Open Access Resource for Authors