Open Access Publishing   Tags: authors_rights, open_access, scholarly_publishing  

Open access (OA) is the free, online availability of scholarly journal articles, including peer-reviewed materials, and primarily in reference to those which authors publish without expectation of payment.

Open Access can refer to publishing initiatives where journals make their articles freely accessible immediately on publication, or to self-archiving initiatives where authors make copies of their own published articles freely accessible via a subject-based or institutional repository.

Advocacy

Create Change Canada
Shouldn't the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet? Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and SPARC.

ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit
The toolkit summarizes key issues and offers basic information on scholarly communication topics.

Open Doors and Open Minds
What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution.

Student Statement on the Right to Research
From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

Declarations

• Berlin Declaration on Open Access
  Launched in October 2003.

• Budapest Open Access Initiative
  Launched in 2002.

• IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation
  Signed December 2003.

For Further Information:

• Open Access Directory
  A compendium of factual lists about Open Access to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.

• Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
  Practical steps for implementing Open Access.