Open Access / Scholarly Publishing Resources
General Sources
Association of Research Libraries Create Change Initiative
http://www.createchange.org/index.html
Medical Library Association
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/publish/pub_resources.html
Open Access Now
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess
SPARC Open Access Newsletter (OA overview, timeline, blog, etc.)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
Open Access Publishers
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com
PLoS
http://www.plos.org
Support for Open Access
Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
International Federation of Library Associations
http://www.ifla.org/V/press/oa240204.html
Medical Library Association
http://www.mlanet.org/government/info_access/openaccess_statement.html
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=6
Wellcome Trust
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node3302.html
NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-032.html
NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (policy revised on Jan. 11, 2008)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html
NIH Public Access
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system
http://www.nihms.nih.gov/
Research Councils of the United Kingdom-Update on RCUK Current Strategy on Open Access
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/cmsweb/downloads/rcuk/documents/2006statement.pdf 
Scholarly Society/Association Viewpoints
DC Principles (society/association publishers)
http://www.dcprinciples.org/
Royal Society
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040308/02
Society for Scholarly Publishing
http://www.sspnet.org/
Studies of Scientific Research Publishing
Wellcome Trust
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc%5Fwtd002874.html
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers-The Facts About Open Access
http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=200&did=47&aid=270&st=&oaid=-1
Post-publication Addendum to ALPSP Study
http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=200&did=47&aid=270&st=&oaid=-1
Profiles of Major Media Groups
http://www.ketupa.net
Impact Factors
The Impact of Open Access Journals (Thompson ISI)
http://scientific.thomson.com/media/presentrep/acropdf/impact-oa-journals.pdf
2006 Impact Factors for PLoS Journals
http://www.plos.org/cms/node/233
Impact Factor Joined by Eigenfactor and H-Index (Society for Scholarly Publishing)
http://www.sspnet.org/News/Impact_Factor_Joined_by_Eigenfac/news.aspx
PubMed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
Institutional Repository Services
BioMed Central Open Repository
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openrepository/
Digital Commons
http://www.bepress.com/ir/
Data Harvesting
OAIster
http://www.oaister.org/
Open Archives Initiative (Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, etc.)
http://www.openarchives.org/
Copyright & Intellectual Property
SHERPA (contains information on publishers’ copyright policies & use restrictions)
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/about/
Discussion List
LIBLICENSE-L Discussion List
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/mailing-list.shtml
This webliography is based on significant work done by Mary Ryan, Director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library.
