'Open Access for dummies'


A draft document listing many of the online resources available that provide basic information on open access models, initiatives, etc.

Many thanks to Peter Suber for the inital list; it will be regularly updated as part of the development of GNKN.

Budapest Open Initiative Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm

ARL (2003). Framing the issue: Open access.[Discussion of many aspects including legislation and pending legislation that could dampen the movement.]
http://www.arl.org/scomm/open_access/framing.html

ARL (2003). Issues in Scholarly Communication Open Access. [Exploration of many of the issues concerned in open access by the Association of Research Libraries.]
http://www.arl.org/scomm/open_access/index.html

Create Change Right Now (2002). Resource that includes information on the serials crisis (including actual costs) and many other issues facing libraries. Also provides a frequently asked questions document, an advocacy kit and some tools for creating change.
http://www.createchange.org/home.html

Electronic publishing: Issues and future trends. (n.d.) Links to open access journals and organizations, eprint archives, web sites for e-archives, forth coming meetings, copyright and publisher policies, and research assessment exercise.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/ustlg/autumn02/anne/links.html

Grinnell College Libraries (n.d.). Alternative Publishing Options. Links many alternatives
http://www.lib.grin.edu/databases/testindex.html

Kling, R. Spector, L. & McKim, G. (2002). Locally controlled scholarly publishing via the Internet: The Guild Model. The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 8(1) This article describes a model of open access publishing that could be very workable in nursing.http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/08-01/kling.html

Morrison, J. L. & Suber, P. (2002). The Free Online Scholarship Movement: An Interview with Peter Suber. Commentary. [Information about the forms that open access takes, problems in establishing, funding, incentives for authors, where we are now and predictions for the future.]
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1025

OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial. An introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/

Open access to scientific and technical information: State of the art and future trends (2003). Links to many sources including definitions, a retrospective look at open access from 1990 to 2001, archives, electronic publications and the players. Some good background information.
http://www.inist.fr/openaccess/en/comsci_arch_mouv.php

SPARC Publishing Resources. [Links to tools and suites for publishing and managing online journals, archives, and repositories.] by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=h16

Suber, P. (2003, preprint). Open Access to Science and Scholarship. Preprint of a paper for the December 2003 meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva. [Background history of scientific journals and exaplanation of how print and online journals are compatible.]
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/wsis.htm

Suber, P. (2003). Lists Related to The Open Access Movement. [Description of list servs that focus on this topic, is updated frequently. Also some links to other information about open access.]
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm#discussions

Suber, P. (2003). Removing the barriers to research: An introduction to open access for librarians. College & Research Libraries News, 64. 92-94; 113. [Although directed at librarians the information would be helpful in persuading others of the value of the open access movement.]
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm

Suber, P. (2002). Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature. Journal of Biology 1(1) [An easily understood answer to many questions and fears about online freely accessible scholarly literature.]
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/jbiol.htm

Suber, P. Glossary of terms for open access.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm

University Library, UC Davis. Web page established in the summer of 2000 that is updated. Links to many sources of information including academic institutional repositories, ebooks, resource guides and many others.
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/healthsci/webpub.html

Timeline of the Open Access Movement. Detailed listing of major events in online free access starting in 1966.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=15022002-020541-2918r

Vaknin, S. (2002). Copyright and scholarship, part1 [This and part 2 explore the issue of copyright in terms of open access. This article also discusses the serials crisis.]
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=15022002-015414-4119r

Vaknin, S. (2002). Copyright and scholarship, part11. [Discusses some of the current{2002} actitivities in open acces publishing.]

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=15022002-020541-2918r



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