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Comprehensive directory of open access scientific and scholarly journals. The directory is organized by subject matter and is also searchable by title and article.
Directory of academic, peer reviewed books in published open access.
Site ranks journals according to their policy regarding self-archiving. Type the title of the journal in the search box to find out what the publisher’s archiving conditions are.
Guide (written by Peter Suber, Stuart Shiever and others) to good practices for university open-access (OA) policies. It’s based on the type of policy first adopted at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and the University of Kansas.
OASIS aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise.
Brief factsheet on the importance of Open Access and how it works.
“HowOpenIsIt?® OAS moves the conversation from “Is It Open Access?” to “HowOpenIsIt?® ” and illustrates a nuanced continuum of more versus less open to enable users to compare and contrast publications and policies across a grid of clearly defined components related to readership, reuse, copyright, author and automatic posting, and machine readability."
UNESCO has created two sets of open access curricula, one for researchers and the other for library and information professionals, that will soon be converted into self-directed e-learning tools.