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
Linda Q. Thede in the first instance for all queries, comments and contributions - linda.thede@gnkn.org
Peter J. Murray for website issues - peter.murray@gnkn.org
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