Other resources and links

The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)

The BOAI, issued in February 2002, was the first major declaration of support for open access and has been signed by over 4800 people and organisations. It outlined both the dual strategy of self-archiving and open access journals as well as defined open access as access free of both price and permission barriers (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm). A number of additional declarations and statements followed the BOAI, most significant of which were the Bethesda Statement (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm) and the Berlin Declaration (http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html). Peter Suber has compared the major definitions of open access, highlighting similarities and differences (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-04-03.htm)

Published or be Damned

In December 2004 BBC Radio produced a programme on scholarly publishing and open access – it provides an excellent introduction to the debate and the main issues.

The Next Information Revolution - How Open Access will Transform Scholarly Communications - Prosser

This book chapter provides a basic introduction to the concepts within open access, an exploration of the two open access strategies and how they interact, and a vision for the future of scholarly communications. In the few years since the publication of the chapter all the indicators of the success of open access have improved. (in Gorman, G E and Rowland, Fytton, Eds. International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2004-2005: Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era (http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/index.shtml))

Open Access News

Peter Suber is the editor of Open Access News, the web’s most comprehensive site for open access news. Open Access News is essential reading for anybody wishing to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in open access.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

The literature on open access is increasingly at a tremendous rate. Charles W. Bailey, Jr does an amazing job in compiling his regularly updated bibliography, which presents over 3,000 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Charles also produces an annual PDF version of the Bibliography.

The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals

This resource, also produced by Charles Bailey, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than the SEPB does

Guide to Creating Institutional Open Access Policies

A whitepaper from SPARC and Science Commons offering ten simple steps to maximizing campus-wide research impact

Open Access: Opportunities and challenges – A handbook Joint publication by the European Commission and the German Commission for UNESCO

A handbook to 'inform stakeholders and the society-at-large of the opportunities and challenges surrounding open access, and to promote a broad and inclusive debate on the future of scientific publishing in the European Research Area.'

OASIS, Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook

OASIS aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise. Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use. Open Access is evolving, and we invite the growing world-wide community to take part in this exciting global movement.