Free Access Theory Directory
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Self-Archiving FAQ
eprints.org
Answers to frequently asked questions about self archiving including what and how. Has a "I worry about..." set of questions too with advice and answers to issues.Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives
cogsci.soton.ac.uk
How to free access to scientific literature: papers by one of the leaders of the open archives initiative.First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights
firstmonday.org
Introducing the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain.Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
earlham.edu
(FOS) News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. Newsletter, forum, FAQ and a comprehensive directory on electronic archives.Nature Debates: E-Access
nature.com
Online forum hosted by Nature Online concerning the impact of the web on the future of publishing and the dissemination of scientific information.Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing
dtc.umn.edu
A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic communication, its impact and consequences.Budapest Open Access Initiative
soros.org
Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet.American Scientist Forum on Open Access
amsci-forum.amsci.org
Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous since 1998.Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing
arl.org
An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future.Online or Invisible?
citeseer.ist.psu.edu
Article by Steve Lawrence appeared in Nature (2001) analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited, free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact.Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library
bireme.br
An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'. (March 24, 1998)Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement
earlham.edu
Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship initiative.Public Library of Science
plos.org
A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free access online journals and eprints archives.Creating a global knowledge network
lanl.arxiv.org
Considerations on how to build a knowledge network for research communication and on its potential impact, by P. Ginsparg, one of the founders of ArXiv. (February 23, 2001)Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research
nytimes.com
A group challenging the power of established scientific journals says legislation will be introduced to make the results of all federally financed research available to the public. (June 26, 2003)Create Change
createchange.org
A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. Main issues concern subscription prices for scholarly journals and help for journals willing to find publishing options better suited to their academic missions.Eprints.org
eprints.org
Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving.Rights Metadata for Open archiving
lboro.ac.uk
(RoMEO) A project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee to investigate the rights issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative's protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI). Legal issues, surveys, links to related discussions.
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