Open Access / Scholarly Publishing Resources
General Sources
Electronic Journals and Public Access: Changes in Scholarly Communication. National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/ejournals/
Scholarly Communication: Issues for Health Sciences Libraries in Clinical Settings. National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/ejournals/nonacad.html
Association of Research Libraries Create Change Initiative
http://www.createchange.org/index.html
Scholarly Publishing Issues. Medical Library Association.
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/publish/pub_resources.html
Open Access Now. BioMed Central.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess
SPARC Open Access Newsletter. The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
Open Access Publishers
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com
PLoS. Public Library of Science.
http://www.plos.org
Support for Open Access
Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
IFLA Supports Open Access Movement. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
http://www.ifla.org/V/press/oa240204.html
Medical Library Association Statement on Open Access
http://www.mlanet.org/government/info_access/openaccess_statement.html
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Will Cover Article Charges. Open Access Now.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=6
Wellcome Trust
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node3302.html
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Statement on Sharing Research Data
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-032.html
NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (policy revised on Jan. 11, 2008)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html
NIH Public Access
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system
http://www.nihms.nih.gov/
Research Councils of the United Kingdom Updated Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/cmsweb/downloads/rcuk/documents/2006statement.pdf
Scholarly Society/Association Viewpoints
Royal Society Down on Open Access
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040308/02
Society for Scholarly Publishing
http://www.sspnet.org/
Studies of Scientific Research Publishing
Reports on Open Access. Wellcome Trust.
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Reports/index.htm
The Facts About Open Access. Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.
http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=200&did=47&aid=270&st=&oaid=-1
Profiles of Major Media Groups
http://www.ketupa.net
Impact Factors
The Impact of Open Access Journals (Thompson ISI)
http://scientific.thomson.com/media/presentrep/acropdf/impact-oa-journals.pdf
2006 Impact Factors for PLoS Journals. Public Library of Science.
http://www.plos.org/cms/node/233
Impact Factor Joined by Eigenfactor and H-Index. Society for Scholarly Publishing.
http://www.sspnet.org/News/Impact_Factor_Joined_by_Eigenfac/news.aspx
PubMed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
Institutional Repository Services
BioMed Central Open Repository
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openrepository/
Digital Commons
http://www.bepress.com/ir/
Data Harvesting
OAIster
http://www.oaister.org/
Open Archives Initiative
http://www.openarchives.org/
Copyright & Intellectual Property
SHERPA
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/about/
Discussion List
LIBLICENSE-L Discussion List
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/mailing-list.shtml
This webliography is based on significant work done by Mary Ryan, Director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library.