Open access/External Links

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General reading

• Open Access Overview — an introduction by Peter Suber on the major aspects of the topic, with lots of links to more detailed information

Open access news

• Open Access Tracking Project — a social bookmarking initiative dedicated to nearly real-time coverage of open access new and developments

Precursor: Open Access News

• Open Access Chronicle - based on Twitter messages on open access

Further reading

• Timeline of the Open Access Movement — a detailed list of the major steps that have been taken since 1966 to open up access to the scholarly literature
• Chelsea Wald (2010). "Scientists Embrace Openness". Science Careers (2010-04-09). DOI:10.1126/science.caredit.a1000036. Research Blogging. ^[e]

Provides an introductory overview of Open notebook science, focused on its practitioners. Covers the possibility of being scooped and exposes the benefits of open research in most of its variants: open science, open data, open access, open source.

A lively discussion of the article is here, which broadens the subject to a comparison of open research and open journalism. Participants: The author, her editor, scientists, educators and patient advocates.

• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
• First Author - Open access: scientific publishing in the developing world; featured article
• metacollab.net - an open access collaborative research project focusing on collaboration.
• Beyond Open Access: Open Discourse, the next great equalizer, Retrovirology 2006, 3:55
• Bioinformatics Organization: The Open-Access Institute
• American Scientist Open Access Forum
• Budapest Open Access Initiative

• The Berlin Declaration on open access.
• An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 25 Nobel Prize Winners (August 26, 2004) in support of a bill requiring all research funded by the National Institutes of Health to be published in an open access form
• Call for freely available Science (BBC News 20 July 2004), Scientific Publications: Free for all? (The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee - Tenth Report, 7 July 2004)
• In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing
• The Nine Flavours of Open Access Scholarly Publishing
• Berlin 3 Open Access Policy Recommendation
• Open Access Archivangelism: Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Research Access
• OA Librarian
• Discussion List on Open Access topics for STM Journal Editors
• Israel Scholar Works digital archive of Science literature
• Canadian librarian leads worldwide digital revolt for free knowledge
• Open Access Bibliography
• Why aren't scientific journals free on the web? - a good crowd-sourced discussion of this seemingly simple question on Hacker News, bringing up most of the major arguments for and against open access