Introduction

See also this article by Alma Swan on Open Access: What is it and why should we have it?

New Publishing Models for Open Access

Author self-archiving
Preprint repositories, e.g. arXiv for scientific papers in physics, mathematics, computer science and biology.
RePEc Research Papers in Economics

New possibilities
Ask Dr Wiki: a Medical Wiki with the goal of creating a collective online memory for physicians, nurses, and medical students
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Savage Minds: notes and queries in anthropology

Institutional and Subject Repositories
Universities, e.g. UBC's cIRcle; SFU; Toronto; eScholarship Repository at U of California.
See also CARL's Canadian Institutional Repositories.
Subject repositories, e.g. PubMed Central; E-LIS; DLIST

Libraries as ejournal publishers/hosts
Transnational curriculum inquiry (UBC)
Canadian Journal of Communication (SFU)
Journal of insect science (U of Wisconsin Library)


Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a free journal management and publishing system from the Public Knowledge Project at UBC and SFU.

Institutional subscription model
Examples: PLoS Biology; BioMed Central

Commercial publishers
Oxford UP, e.g. Nucleic acids research (gold)
Elsevier: journals are not OA, but authors can self archive (green)
Some publishers have an embargo period, then OA.
Over 90% of publishers now allow authors to self-archive, subject to some constraints.

Funding agencies
A number of funding agencies now mandate/request that grant holders deposit copies of articles in OA archives:
NIH, the National Institutes of Health, has a mandatory Public Access Policy.
Wellcome Trust has a mandatory deposit policy (UK)
SSHRC (Canada) is promoting OA through its 'Aid to Open-Access Research Journals' program.
CIHR, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, published its mandatory Policy on Access to Research Outputs in September 2007.
See also the US Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 from The Alliance of Taxpayer Access web site.

Towards open access publishing in high energy physics
SCOAP3: Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics.

Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) from Lund University Library
Free Online Full-Text Articles from HighWire Press, Stanford University

Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving information can be found at:
SHERPA/ROMEO
OAKList

For Open Access copyright information, see
Creative Commons and Creative Commons Canada
SPARC's Author Rights Initiative
SPARC Canadian Author Addendum

Open Archives

The University of Michigan maintains a massive search engine to search Open Archives:
OAIster
See also:
Open Archives Initiative

Open Archives registries are available at:
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories

Citation Impact

The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies from OpCit, the Open Citation Project

Open Access Blogs

Open Access News
OA Librarian

Open Access at UBC

cIRcle: UBC's Information Repository
Electronic Thesis Submission
eJournal hosting service
Digital collections and services

Background Resources

Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals by Charles W. Bailey. (129 pages, PDF file)
(Also available in html and in print)

Canadian Digital Information Strategy (draft, October 2007)
(Library and Archives Canada initiative)
CLA Open Access Task Force
(Canadian Library Association) This Task Force has completed its work, and CLA has recently founded an Open Access Interest Group.
Create Change: Get more from your academic research.
(Association of Research Libraries and SPARC)
Create Change Canada: Get more from your academic research.
(Association of Research Libraries and SPARC)
Repository Resources
(SPARC)
Scholarly Communication
(Association of Research Libraries)
Scholarly Communications at CARL
(Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Scholarly Communication Toolkit
(ACRL's issues, impacts and strategies for adminstrators, faculty and librarians)
The SPARC Open Access Newsletter
(A monthly newsletter by Peter Suber, Earlham College)

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