Open Access & Scholarly Publishing Resources

General Sources

• Electronic Journals and Public Access: Changes in Scholarly Communication - Network of the National Library of Medicine
• Scholarly Communication: Issues for Health Sciences Libraries in Clinical Settings - Network of the National Library of Medicine
• Association of Research Libraries Create Change Initiative
• Open Access Now. BioMed Central
• SPARC Open Access Newsletter - The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition.
• PubMed Central

Open Access Publishers

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• BioMed Central
• PLoS - Public Library of Science

Support for Open Access

• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
• IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation
• The Alliance for Taxpayer Access
• Wellcome Trust
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Statement on Sharing Research Data
• NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (policy revised on Jan. 11, 2008)
• NIH Public Access
• NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) System
• Research Councils of the United Kingdom Updated Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs

Scholarly Society/Association Viewpoints

• Society for Scholarly Publishing

Studies of Scientific Research Publishing

• The Facts About Open Access - Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

Impact Factors

• The Impact of Open Access Journals (Thompson ISI)
• 2006 Impact Factors for PLoS Journals - Public Library of Science

Institutional Repository Services

• BioMed Central Open Repository
• Digital Commons

Data Harvesting

• OAIster
• Open Archives Initiative/

Copyright & Intellectual Property

• SHERPA
• Creative Commons

Discussion List

• LIBLICENSE-L Discussion List

This webliography is based on significant work done by Mary Ryan, Director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library.