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`OPEN ACCESS LINKS`

Advocacy & Initiatives
Licences and Legal issues
Libraries
Publishers
Funding Agencies, Scientific & Tech Organizations
Supporting Foundations
Studies
Debates & Forums

ADVOCACY & INITIATIVES & MANIFESTOES

Project Gutenberg
ArXiv (Dr. Paul Ginsparg )
Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
- The self-archiving initiative (Dr. Steven Harnad)
- Open Archives Forum ( European IST Accompanying Measures project IST-2001-320015).
- OAI Rigths
- OAI discussion archive
MDPI (Dr. Shu-Kun Lin)
Free Online Scholarship
Budapest Open Access Initiative (SOROS)
Association of Research Libraries Initiatives :
- Gaining Independence: A Manual
- Create Change
- SPARC declaring independence
- A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing
- SPARC Open Access Forum Archive
Creative Commons ( Article en français )
Public Knowledge
Public Knowledge Project
CLIC project Electronic Journals (UK)
FIGARO European Academic Digital Publishing Initiative ( FIGARO,acronym for Federated Initiative of GAP and Roquade.)
- Roquade (Nederland)
- German Academic Publishers (GAP)
CCSD (CNRS - France )
CENS Centre d'Edition Numérique Scientifique (CNRS - France )
COUPERIN (Consortium Universitaire de Périodiques Numériques)
CyberThèses ( soutenu par le Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes )
Pastel ( Thèses en ligne, ParisTech )
INASP ( International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications)
Electronic Publishing Trust for Development(EPT)
Archive.org : The Internet Archive
Cyclade Open Archive (Europe)
TORII a TIPS project (Tools for Innovative Publishing in Science)
D-space Durable Digital Depository (MIT - Hewlett-Packard )
Public Library of Science (PLoS) ( $9 million grant from the Moore Foundation )
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
Open Access: Restoring Scientific communication to its rightful owners (European Science Foundation European Science Policy Briefings )
Eric Eldred Act
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Max Planck Society eDoc Server
Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme
SAUVONS LA RECHERCHE !
Open Science ( using free software in Science, not like Gaussian chemistry package )
SIST - Système d'Information Scientifique et Technique en Afrique.
- Scientific and Technical Information System [SIST] : un projet de coopération du ministère français des Affaires étrangères
- Le projet FSP-SIST annonce une "recherche fédérée" pour Agora
Etats Généraux de la Recherche
SCIELO
GDR Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication et Société
The Public Domain of Digital Research Data
Open Source|Open Access Project
European Consortium for Communications Research
European Science Social Forum Network
Revues.org ( Portail et association de revues en Sciences Humaines )
Persée ( Portail )
CAIRN
Digital Divide Network
JSTOR
MUSE
Collection de l'Ecole Française d'Athènes
Unité d'Innovation Ingénierie des Contenus et Savoirs
The Deconstructed Journal - a new model for Academic Publishing - The Deconstructed Journal - revisited
Open Access Webliography
Open Access Working Group ( initiated by SPARC/ARL )
Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR
Electronic Publishing Trust for Development
Science Commons

LICENCES and LEGAL ISSUES

Licences (GNU)
- General Public License (GNU)
- Lesser General Public License (GNU ) ( for software libraries )
- Free Documentation License (GNU )
OSL approved Licenses (Opensource.org)
Creative Commons ( Article en franÃ§ais )
PUBLIC DOCUMENTATION LICENSE ( OpenOffice )
Licence Art Libre
Open Content License (OPL)
Open Publication License
Open Publication License ( Open Content )

PUBLISHERS that do not require COPYRIGHT transfer

iUniverse
Xlibris
Le Publieur (french)
Publibook (french)
Editions Equitables ( equitable but not exactly OA ... )

LIBRARIES' ASSOCIATIONS

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions(IFLA)
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 Bibliothèques 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 bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (CARL)
Special Libraries Association (SLA)
eIFL-Electronic Information for Libraries
Association of Public Data Users
Digital Library Federation (DLF)
Council on Library and Information Ressources (CLIR)
Association des professionnels de l'information et de la documentation (ADBS)

PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATIONS

The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication
International Association of Scientific,Technical and Medical Publishers
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publisher
Council of Science Editors
CrossRef (Publishers International Linking Association)
Syndicat National de l¿Edition

SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION AGENCIES & ORGANIZATIONS

International Council for Science (ICSU) ( Agenda for Action )
ICSTI (The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information )
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (NSF funded)
National Information Standards Organization(NISO)
Information Society Technologies Programme (IST)
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
INIST (CNRS - France)
URFIST (Unité Régionale de Formation à l'Information Scientifique et Technique - Ecole Nationale des Chartes - Paris - France )
EnsSIB (Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques - France)
Third World Academy of Sciences
World Federation of Engineering Organizations
- WSIS
- Committee on Information and Communication
- World Congress on the Digital Divide (WCDD) (Tunis, 14-16 October 2003)
Institut des sciences du document numérique (ISDN)
Expertise de ressources pour l'édition de revues numériques
SIST - Système d'Information Scientifique et Technique ( Construire un système d'information scientifique et technique en Afrique, un projet de coopération du ministère français des Affaires étrangères) ( see also Scientific and Technical Information System [SIST] )

AGENCIES currently providing
financial support to OPEN ACCESS initiatives or events.

Information Society Technologies (IST/Europe) ( SciX 1 million Euros )
Information society
INTAS Library Action
INIST (conference)
JISC

FOUNDATIONS currently funding OPEN ACCESS projects

Soros Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation ( 9 millions $ PLoS )
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (PLoS )
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (OAIster & the Metadata Harvesting Initiative of the Mellon Foundation $1.5M to seven institutions ) )
Rockfeller Foundation ( $300,000 SciDev.Net )
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation ( Create Change )
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

STUDIES: Papers & Books

Open source methods and their future potential
Édition universitaire et perspectives du numérique
"Open Access in South Africa: current status, significance, and the role of National Information Policy in the National System of Innovation ( Avril 2004)
The World Summit in Reflection: a deliberative dialog on WSIS ( Information Technologies and International Development Journal )
Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature ( Gerry McKiernan, E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities, (edited by David C. Fowler. New York :Haworth Information Press, 2004)
Prospects for institutional e-print repositories in the United Kingdom ( Michael Day, 28 May 2003 )
In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing by Jean-Claude Guédon
Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing (Wellcome Trust)
Ted Bergstrom's Journal Pricing Page
Expenditure trends 1986-2001 (ARL)
Free labor for Costly Journals
McCabe, Mark.Research Papers on Publishing and Mergers
The Transition from Paper: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There?
Edited by R. Stephen Berry and Anne Simon Moffat
Libre accès à l'information scientifique et technique : actualités, problématiques et perspectives (INIST)
- Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: The state of the art. (INIST October 2002).
- Libre accès aux résultats de la recherche publique - la discussion américaine (19 août 2003)
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
Intermédiaires pour les revues scientifiques électroniques
Le coût de la liberté (INIST/ CaptainDoc)
La communication scientifique revue et corrigée par Internet ( Hélène Bosc )

DEBATES & FORUMS

Future e-access to the primary literature (Debate at Nature )
Open Archives Forum
American Scientist Forum
A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: [email protected] Hypermail Archive: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
ESF debate on electronic publishing
Libre accès à l'information scientifique ( in french )
[email protected] Bibliothécaires, documentalistes et documents numériques ( in french )
ICT for Education & Science ( Development Gateway )

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