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Open Access Resources

Budapest Open Access Initiative - Joint statement and open access resources

Create Change - A guide to reclaiming scholarly communication for scholars and librarians

The Open Access Movement - Resources from the Association of Research Libraries

Open Access Publishing Pathfinder - Cultural Research's introduction to open access

Public Knowledge Project: Publications - Including John Willinsky on open access publishing

Public Library of Science - Supporting open access publishing

SPARC - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

SPARC Open Access Newsletter - Edited by Peter Suber including links to related resources such as: Open Access News and Timeline of the Open-Access Movement


Open Access in the Humanities

Alternatives to Pay-for-View - The case for open access to historical research and scholarship

H-Net - Humanities and social sciences online

Promoting Open Access in the Humanities - Peter Suber


Open Access Journals

BioMed Central - Open access publishing

Biomedical Digital Libraries - Digital libraries in a biomedical context

Declaring Independence and Gaining Independence - Guides to starting journals from SPARC

Directory of Open Access Journals - Listing a growing range of journals

D-Lib Magazine - Digital libraries journal

Open Access Journal Business Guides - From the Budapest Open Access Initiative

Open Access Now - Online journal from BioMed Central

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog - News and resource links


Open Access Books

Ebooks - Guide to ebook projects hosted at ibiblio

Million Book Project - Scanning towards a million

O'Reilly Open Books Project - Tech books

Project Gutenberg - Scanned public domain volumes


Open Access Archives & Repositories

eScholarship Repository - Of the University of California

Online Research Communication and Open Access - Archivangelist Stevan Harnad's self-archive

Self-Archiving FAQ - Extensive introduction to self-archiving

SHERPA - Assisting scholarly communication with an emphasis on e-print archives, includes links to publications and reports


Creative Commons

Common Content - Creative Commons licensed

Creative Commons - Extending use of creative works

Search for Content - Creative Commons licensed content


Open Access Links & Directories

From the Open Directory:

Reference: Open Access Resources

Organizations: Open Access

Free Access Theory

Open Source: Open Content


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