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OPEN-ACCESS.ORG

Directory of OPEN ACCESS Projects & Advocacy groups 

INITIATIVES & PROPOSALS & MANIFESTOES 

Budapest Open Access Initiative
The self-archiving initiative (S. Harnad)
A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing

Public Library of Science.
 ( They received recently a  $9 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation )

Gaining Independence: A Manual

Create Change

SPARC declaring independence

ALPS journal : Learned Publishing

CLIC project Electronic Journals

FIGARO European Academic Digital Publishing Initiative

INASP   (
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications)

Electronic Publishing Trust for Development(EPT) 

     LIBRARIANS' and PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATIONS    	

    International Scholarly Communications Alliance (ISCA)

     The Association of Research Libraries (North America)

 The Canadian Association of Research Libraries

 The Consortium of University Research Libraries (UK and Ireland)

 The Council of Australian University Librarians

  The Council of New Zealand University Librarians

 LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothčques Européennes de Recherche)

 Association of National University Libraries (Japan)

 Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (Hong Kong SAR, China)

Association of Research Libraries

SPARC (ARL)

SPARC Europe Support Budapest Open Access Initiative

SPARC Europe alliance of European research libraries

SPARC Consulting Group

Ligue des Bibli. Europ. de Recherche(LIBER)  

   Association des bibliothčques de recherche du Canada (CARL)

Association of Learned and Professional Society Publisher

ALPS : links

Council of Science Editors

International Association of Scientific,Technical and Medical Publishers

The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions(IFLA)

 Special Libraries Association (SLA)

eIFL-Electronic Information for Libraries

CrossRef (Publishers International Linking Association)

Digital Object Identifier

    SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION AGENCIES &  ORGANIZATIONS 

    Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (NSF funded)

National Information Standards Organization(NISO)

International Council for Science (ICSU)

ICSTI (The International Council 
   for Scientific and Technical Information )

 ERPANET  addressing the lack of awareness,
   fragmentation of knowledge and skills amongst the stakeholder communities about
   how to handle existing digital preservation problems.
   (a European IST project )

Globewide Network Academy 

    OPEN ARCHIVES PROJECTS 

     E-prints

Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

Quick Guide to Eprints 

Romeo
  ( Rights MEtadata for Open archiving )

Sherpa
  ( Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access )

OAIster

Cyclade Open Archive (Europe)

TORII
     a TIPS project (Tools for Innovative Publishing in Science)

Information Society Technologies Programme (IST)

ICSTI
     (The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information)

Citebase (in Open Archives)

ARC - A Cross Archive Search Service (in Open Archives)

OpCit(Reference Linking and Citation Analysis for Open Archives)

my.OAI  (full-featured search engine to some databases from the Open
                             Archives Initiative project )

    Other ARCHIVES PROJECTS 

 Archive.org : The Internet Archive 

 Project Gutenberg

    AGENCIES currently supporting OPEN ACCESS archives or journals initiatives

  INTAS Library Action

INIST conference

    FOUNDATIONS currently supporting OPEN ACCESS journals or Archives 

  Soros foundation

 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Howard Hughes Medical Institute 

 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
   (OAIster)

  STUDY PAPERS 

In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists,
Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing by Jean-Claude Guédon

 Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information:
The state of the art. (INIST October 2002). 

 Online Research Communication and Open Access  papers  by S. Harnad 

 For Whom the Gate Tolls? by S. Harnad

Economic Models for Open Access Publishing 

Economics and Electronic Access to Scholarly Information   

The rising costs of scientific journals

The Economics of Electronic Journals

Electronic Publishing in Science (LANL)

Creating a global knowledge network
  Paul Ginsparg

Electronic Clones vs. the Global Research Archive
Paul Ginsparg, LANL

 Open Access BOOKS  (ie free online books )

  The Transition from Paper: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? 

Edited by R. Stephen Berry and Anne Simon Moffat

 DEBATES & FORUMS 

American Scientist Forum

ESF debate on electronic publishing

 Future e-access to the primary literature  (Debate at Nature )

Open Archives Forum

 ENCRYPTED CENSORSHIP RESILIANT PUBLISHING & ARCHIVES 

    open access eternity servers

 TAZ Anonymous publishing 

Eternity Service(Cambridge)

Eternity service   (Charles Univ. )

PeaceFire 

  PUBLIC DOMAIN ADVOCACY GROUPS & STUDIES   

Public Knowledge
Creative Commons
Center for the Public Domain 
Consumer Project on Technology (Ralph Nader)
NoCopyright.org 
DigitalConsumer.org
 ( Protecting fair-use rights in the digital world )

 CIVIL LIBERTIES ADVOCACY GROUPS  

EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
ACLU American Civil Liberties Union
Alliance for Digital Progress(ADP) 
Freedom House
Official World Forum on Democracy
Peacefire :people for young people's freedom of speech
Save The Web org.

Internet Society ISOC-France

Public Interest Registry ( .org )

The Center for Democracy and Technology

Voters Telecommunications Watch 

the Internet Democracy Project.

People For Internet Responsibility

Responsability in free speech

The Media Institute

Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)

Samizdat.net

OpenLaw 

CyberSpace.org a public service promoting free speech

The Electronic Freedom March on Washington

Electronic Privacy Information Center 

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Libertarian Alliance

 LEGAL INFORMATION 

Mathematical copyright
What Happened to MathWorld

Duke University School of Law

 The Copyright Society of the United States of America
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Legal Information Institute  ( Cornell University Law School)

 MAILING LISTS & FORUMS 

Open Archives Initiative
eMail List CODATA_International 
Budapest Open Archive Initiative Forum
Copyright Colloquium

PUBLISHERS that do not require COPYRIGHT transfer

iUniverse
Xlibris
Le Publieur (french)
Publibook (french)

 DIVERS SITES "LIBERAUX" en FRANCAIS 

   Document Libre

Vecam 

CITADEL-EF (Electronic Frontier) assoc. France

A.U.I Assoc. Utilisateurs Internet

Assises de l'Internet non marchand

Lantre site Francais liberte sur Internet

IRIS asso contre la loi sur la libertĂŠ de communication

MediaLibre (site francais)

Reseau Voltaire

Big Brother Awards France

LSIjolie
HACKMEETING] DES CONTRE-CULTURES DIGITALES

CIDEM : Le Web Citoyen

Declaration Universelle des droits de l'Homme

La lettre de L'Internet juridique

Le droit moral des auteurs et l'Internet