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Rights Metadata for Open archiving - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html
(RoMEO) A project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee to investigate the rights issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative's protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI). Legal issues, surveys, links to related discussions. |
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Eprints.org - http://www.eprints.org/
Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving. |
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Budapest Open Access Initiative - http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. |
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Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
All of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research. |
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Self-Archiving FAQ - http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
Answers to frequently asked questions about self archiving including what and how. Has a "I worry about..." set of questions too with advice and answers to issues. |
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Nature Debates: E-Access - http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html
Online forum hosted by Nature Online concerning the impact of the web on the future of publishing and the dissemination of scientific information. |
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Create Change - http://www.createchange.org/
A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. Main issues concern subscription prices for scholarly journals and help for journals willing to find publishing options better suited to their academic missions. |
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Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm
Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship initiative. |
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Information Liberation - http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/index.html
Examines radical alternatives for replacing mass media with network media, abolishing intellectual property, and changing social institutions that create a demand for surveillance. Free full text in html and pdf. |
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American Scientist Forum on Open Access - http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous since 1998. |
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Free Online Scholarship Newsletter - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
(FOS) News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. Newsletter, forum, FAQ and a comprehensive directory on electronic archives. |
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Online or Invisible? - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/online-nature01/
Article by Steve Lawrence appeared in Nature (2001) analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited, free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact. |
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Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library - http://www.bireme.br/bvs/por/ideclar.htm
An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'. |
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Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing - http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/eworld.html
A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic communication, its impact and consequences. |
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First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_6/kelsey/
Introducing the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain. |