About this page
The tenets of Open Access are most cogently presented by Peter Suber in his continually updated piece, Open Access Overview (2004). For a quick introduction, he has also authored, A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access (2004). Writings on Open Access is a bibliography of his commentaries on the subject.
Interview with Peter Suber in Author Zone (Springer).
Other definitions:
Budapest Open Access Initiative FAQ | Cornell's OA page
Open Access (SPARC®) | Bethesda definition (Open Access Now)
Berlin Declaration | DOAJ FAQ (journals)
This page will be devoted to links to respositories for e-scholarship and contextual information on open access, as the phenomenon gains currency in the academic landscape. Harvard's resources are also highlighted.
Harvard's OA Journey: An Online Archive
The following links chronicle the develipment of Harvard's Open Access Initiative and the creation of DASH, Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard.
- The Case for Open Access by Robert DarntonArticle by Robert Darnton in the Crimson, dated February 12, 2008.
- Open Access (Harvard Magazine John Harvard's Journal)From the May-June 2008 issue of Harvard Magazine.
- Harvard's DASH for Open Access (HUL news)An article published on September 1, 2009.
- Harvard Signs Budapest OA Initiative & Berlin DeclarationFrom Harvard's Office of Scholarly Communication site. (October 19, 2010)
- Harvard Signs Compact for OA Publishing EquityOn September 14, 2009, Harvard joined signatories Cornell, Dartmouth, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Open Access at Harvard
DASH: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
Administered by the Harvard University Library Office for Scholarly Communication (HUL-OSC), DASH is a "central, open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard."
Office for Scholarly Communication
Supports open access policies at Harvard and programs: DASH, Library Lab, The Harvard Open-Access Publishing Equity (HOPE) Fund and
the Compact for Open Access Equity (COPE).
e-scholarship and OA
Contextual information and major organizational initiatives.
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities22 October 2003 was written in English, the official version. Translations are linked to this page.
- Berlin 9 Open Access ConferenceNovember 9-10, Washington, DC
- Budapest Open Access InitiativeA meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2, 2001 "to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet."
- Bethesda Statement on Open Access PublishingReleased June 20, 2003.
- OASIS Briefing Papers (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook)Open Access and repositories defined; section on copyright and authors' rights and more.
- Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook: OASIS"Practical steps for implementing Open Access."
- Reshaping Scholarly CommunicationUniversity of California site.
- SPARC®Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, "SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system."
- The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship: A Call to ActionPDF of the statement by the Association for Research Libraries, Association of American Universities, Coalition for Networked Information and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
(February 2009)
Open Access Week, October 24-30, 2011
News:
Conferences and workshops related to open access (wiki)
KU established first coalition of institutions practicing open access
Twenty-two universities have formed the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions, or Coapi. Supported by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the group will meet at the upcoming Berlin 9 open-access conference (November 9-10, 2011, Washington, DC).
COAPI Cats: A directory of the 22 academic libraries and links to their policies.
Open access policy adopted: The Daily Princetonian article by James Cheng , September 30, 2011).
SPARC announces expanded Open Access Meeting, March 11-13, 2012, Kansas City. Registration information.
Stevan Harnad's post on Hedda/Higher Education Development Association: What is open access and how to provide it? (September 5, 2011)
91 videos from OA week 2010 are available on the open access week site. The Open Access Directory links to OA sites on a variety of related topics ("a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship"). See a similar listing of Blogs about OA.
- Open Access Week Events 2011Website created for the 2010 week has a page for this year's events.
- Events celebrating Open Access Week (wiki)Events are slowly being added here.
Repositories
Recently published and available online:
Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
(Most sources published from 2000-2011)
Listed here are repository portals inviting you to search through them and learn more about what materials are included, policies that govern inclusion of materials and searching and browsing capabilities.
- ARL New Models:Digital RepositoriesAssociation of Research Libraries links to relevant documents.
- DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research)The network of freely accessible digital repositories ( 295 repositories in 38 countries holding cross-disciplinary publications including journal articles, dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc.
- List of digital libraries, data archives, and data repositories available to "Digging into Data" researchers"The idea behind the Digging into Data Challenge is to address how "big data" changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences." The initiative contributes to creating the new research infrastructure for 21st century scholarship.
- Repository66.org Repository MapsMap created with data from ROAR and OpenDOAR overlayed onto Google maps.
- OAIsterContains multidisciplinary digital resources from open archive collections worldwide. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click. born-digital texts audio files images movies, datasets are included, along with theses technical reports research papers and image collections.
- OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open Access RepositoriesDirectory listing along with ability to search for repositories and search repository contents.
- Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)International in scope. Browse by country, type of repository, software.
OA Publishing
- Guide to Open Access Publishing and Scholarly SocietiesDescribed as a guide with "limited scope. It is meant to help scholarly societies - and small publishers - assess the options available to them for the future of their journal publishing programmes." Published in 2005 by the Open Society Institute.
- ARL Releases Report on Publishing Support for Small Print-Based PublishersPage includes link to PDF of report dated February 2011, "Publishing Support for Small Publishers: Options for ARL Libraries."
- OAPEN: Open Access Publishing in European Networks"a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences." An aggregator for publications across Europe.
- OAPEN: Description of the Peer Review Process per PartnerOAPEN requires academic publishers to post their peer review procedures.
- OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information SourcebookAuthoritative ‘sourcebook’ with case studies, developments, initiatives.
- Open Access Policy KitReleased by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR).
- SHERPA/RoMEO: publisher copyright policies & self-archivingSHERPA Services based at the University of Nottingham. RoMEO works with international partners to develop and maintain the service; it is funded by JISC.
Quick Links
- "Gold OA" and "Green OA" (Peter Suber)From his "Open Access Overview" site.
- Creative Commons"Provides a set of copyright licenses and tools that create a balance inside the traditional 'all rights reserved' setting that copyright law creates."
- Digital ScholarshipOpen Access Publishing since 1989.
- OpenAIRE Video (SPARC® Video Channel)OpenAIRE is Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe.
- Open Content Alliance"The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a collaborative effort of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that helps build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material. An archive of contributed material is available on the Internet Archive website."
- The Open Data HandbookAn Open Knowledge Foundation project.
- ROARMAPROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies
- SPARC®SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is "an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system." (Created by the Association of Research Libraries).
DOAJ
DOAJ includes "scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content." These journals do not charge readers or institutions for access to content.
Blogs
- Digital DigestElectronic publishing news from the AAUP Electronic Committee (Association of American University Presses)
- Scholarly KitchenSociety for Scholarly Publishing blog.