Useful Resources

• JISC's Briefing Paper on Open Access
• Open Access Archiving: the fast track to building research capacity in developing countries
• The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) by By Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Version 64: 10/17/2006
• Transforming access to research literature for developing countries
• Open Access Publications
• The acquisition of open access research articles Arthur Sale
• Making medical information more accessible by Adam Bosworth

Open Access – General

• Open Access Overview (definition, introduction): www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

• Open Access Webliography: www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm

• SPARC Open Access Newsletter: http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/
• The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10611&ttype=2
• Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects: http://www.eprints.org/community/blog/index.php?/archives/93-Open-Access-Key-Strategic,-Technical-and-Economic-Aspects.html

• Framing the Issue - Open Access: http://www.arl.org/scomm/open_access/framing.html

• Nature web focus: Access to the literature: www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate

• Open access on Wikipedia: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access 

• Budapest Open Access Initiative: www.soros.org/openaccess

• Berlin Declaration: www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

• Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing: www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm

• Wellcome Trust Position statement in support of open access publishing: www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html

• IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research: www.ifla.org/V/cdoc/open-access04.html

• Open Access Resources: http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Open_Access_Resources/  

• The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html  

• Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11030.html#toc

• Papers by Alma Swan http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccess/index.html  

• Salvador Declaration on Open Access: The Developing World Perspective  

Open Access – Archiving

• Open Archives Initiative: www.openarchives.org  

• E-prints: www.eprints.org  

• DSpace: www.dspace.org

• A Guide to Institutional Repository Software: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/

• Directory of Open Access Repositories: www.opendoar.org  

• Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) archives.eprints.org     

• SHERPA: Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.html  

• Self-Archiving FAQ: www.eprints.org/self-faq

• SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving: www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

• Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Commitment: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php

• Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

• Open Access Archiving: www.scidev.net/ms/openaccess/   

• ALPSP - Open Archives and Institutional Repositories: http://www.alpsp.org/htp_openarc.htm

Open Access – Publishing

• Directory of open access journals: www.doaj.org  

• Public Library of Science: Open Access: www.plos.org/oa/index.html  

• PMC Open Access Journals: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/about/openftlist.html

• SciELO - Scientific electronic library online: www.scielo.org

• Bioline International: www.bioline.org.br

• AJOL - African Journals Online: www.ajol.info  

• medIND: Indian Fulltext Bio-Medical Journals Indexed in IndMED: www.medind.nic.in   

• BioMed Central: www.biomedcentral.com   

• Medknow Publications: www.medknow.com

• Hindawi Publishing: www.hindawi.com

• Open-J-Gate: www.openj-gate.com

Open Access – Discussion fora and blogs

• Open Access News: www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html  

• SPARC-OAForum@arl.org Archive: https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html   

• BOAI Forum: www.threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lists/boaiforum     

• Open Access Archivangelism: www.openaccess.eprints.org   

• AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM: www.amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html    

• Open and shut?: http://poynder.blogspot.com/

• OA Librarian: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/

• The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics Open access textbooks: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/

• DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/   

• The Parachute: http://theparachute.blogspot.com/

Open Access and the developing world

• Open Access to Science in the Developing World by Peter Suber and Subbiah Arunachalam: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/wsis2.htm  

• International Seminar on Open Access for Developing Countries organized by BIREME/PAHO/WHO: http://www.icml9.org/meetings/openaccess/

• Salvador Declaration on Open Access: the developing world perspective: www.eifl.net/docs/Dcl-Salvador-OpenAccess-en.pdf

• Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries by Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue30/oai-chan/

• India's march towards open access by Subbiah Arunachalam:  http://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinions&itemid=243&language=1

• The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries: http://www.ejisdc.org/ojs2/index.php/ejisdc  

• Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data in China: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11710.html

Workshop Reports

• Creating a National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries by Barbara Kirsop
• Scientists push open access for developing nations by Frederick Noronha
• Bangalore Commitment: Workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access: Developing Country Perspective, a preprint forthcoming in Information - Wissenschaft und Praxis by Achim Osswald
• South-South Alliances - the Bangalore workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access by Eve Gray
• The Bangalore National Open Access Policy - a way forward for developing countries by Eve Gray