Open Access

Part of the Open Access Directory, this webpage is a list of blogs that focus largely on open access.

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and offers access to open access and peer-reviewed journals.

This site provides the national and international research community with objective information about recent developments in open access and offers practical advice to researchers wishing to publish in open access.

The homepage of Peter Suber's book Open Access, which includes links to supplementary material and open access editions.

A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community.

A network of committed individuals, organizations, societies, publishers, libraries, and institutions working together to Make Knowledge Public. The Open Access Network was co-founded by Rebecca Kennison and Lisa Norberg, the original Principals at K|N Consultants, a United States-registered not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides strategic and operational guidance to academic institutions, libraries, scholarly societies, and other mission-driven organizations.

This is an introduction to open access written by Peter Suber. The overview is intended for those who are new to learning about open access and it mainly focuses on open access to peer-reviewed research articles.

Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.

Information about open access by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's site on open access publications.

A statement of principles and guidelines to provide open access research available to anyone with internet access and to promote advances in the sciences, medicine, and health.

A coalition of representatives from North American universities, colleges, and research institutions with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges.

A network of committed individuals, organizations, societies, publishers, libraries, and institutions working together to Make Knowledge Public by providing strategic and operational guidance to academic institutions, libraries, scholarly societies, and other mission-driven organizations.

An international community for open access publishing that works to encourage and enable open access as the predominant model of communication for scholarly outputs.

OASPA works to encourage and enable open access as the predominant model of communication for scholarly outputs.

A nonprofit with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

The U.S. Repository Network is an initiative of SPARC with support from the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). The U.S. Repository Network (USRN) is envisioned as an inclusive community committed to advancing repositories in the U.S.