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What is Open Access?

• Open Access Overview by Peter Suber
• The Budapest Open Access Initiative
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
• The Open Access Bibliography
• The Open Access Directory - a compendium of OA lists
• How Open Is It? A guide by OASPA

For other Open Access resources, please visit the Open Access Directory.

Resources for identifying Quality Open Access journals

• Evaluating Open Access Journals

Open Access publishing for journal owners

• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
• Flipping a journal to open access, by Peter Suber
• Open-access Journal Publishing Resource Index
Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access

For copyright matters and CC licenses, we recommend that you visit Creative Commons

Publishing systems

• E-Journal by Drupal
• HyperJournal
• Open Journal Systems (OJS)
• Ambra Project from the Public Library of Science.
• SOPS from SCiX
• Ubiquity Press

Check out a similar list on the Open Access Directory: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Free_and_open-source_journal_management_software

Open Access publishing for authors

• SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies and self archiving

Open Access and Open Science

• Why Open Research?

Open Access news and debate

• Conferences and workshops, by year, related to Open Access
• OA Librarian – Open access resources by and for librarians
• The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics by Heather Morrison
• OA-barometer 2009
• Laakso, Mikael, Björk, Bo-Christer, 2012, Anatomy of open access publishing - a study of longitudinal development and internal structure, BMC Medicine, 10:124, doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-124.
• Björk, Bo-Christer, Solomon, David, 2012, Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact, BMC Medicine, 10:73, doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-73.