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What is Open Access?
- Open Access Overview by Peter Suber
- The Budapest Open Access Initiative
- Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
- The Open Access Bibliography
- The Open Access Directory – a compendium of OA lists
- How Open Is It? A guide by OASPA
For other Open Access resources, please visit the Open Access Directory.
Resources for identifying Quality Open Access journals
Open Access publishing for journal owners
- The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is an organization dedicated to promoting and advancing open access publishing models.
- “Flipping a journal to open access,” by Peter Suber, is a resource that provides guidance on transitioning traditional subscription-based journals to open access.
- The Open-access Journal Publishing Resource Index is a collection of resources and tools to assist those interested in open access publishing.
- To navigate copyright matters and CC licenses, it is recommended to visit Creative Commons.
Publishing systems
- E-Journal by Drupal
- HyperJournal
- Open Journal Systems (OJS)
- Ambra Project from the Public Library of Science.
- SOPS from SCiX
- Ubiquity Press
Open Access publishing for authors
- SHERPA/RoMEO – Publisher copyright policies and self archiving
Open Access and Open Science
- Why Open Research?
Open Access news and debate
- A list of conferences and workshops related to Open Access organized by year.
- OA Librarian is a website that provides open access resources for librarians.
- The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics is a blog by Heather Morrison that discusses Open Access and related topics.
- OA-barometer 2009 is a report on the state of Open Access in the Netherlands.
- “Anatomy of Open Access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure” is a research article by Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk published in BMC Medicine in 2012.
- “Open Access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact” is a research article by Bo-Christer Björk and David Solomon published in BMC Medicine in 2012.