Blogs about OA

From OAD

• This is list of blogs which focus largely on open access.
• When possible, please indicate the blog's author or primary authors. When its primary language is not English, please indicate what it is.
• Alphabetical.

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Contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 I 9 J 10 K 11 L 12 M 13 O 14 P 15 R 16 S 17 T 18 U 19 V 20 W 21 Z

A

• A Blog Around the Clock. From Bora Zivkovic.
  • Only the posts on Open Science.

• A Scientist and the Web (RSS feed). From Peter Murray-Rust.

• Acceso Abierto (RSS feed). In Spanish. From Carolina De Volder.

• Acceso Abierto en Bibliotecas Universitarias (RSS feed). In Spanish.

• Access to Knowledge. From Bibliotheca Alexandrina. (No RSS feed?)

• Acesso Livre (RSS feed). In Portuguese. From Maria Feminino.

• Acesso Livre Brasil. In Portuguese. From IBICT (Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia). (No RSS?)

• Arab Initiatives of Open Access (RSS feed). In Arabic. From Sulieman Salem Alshuhri and others.

• Archivalia: Category Open Access (RSS Feed). In German. From Klaus Graf.
  • Contains also entries in English on Open Access: English Corner

• Association of Research Libraries - Scholarly Communication (RSS feed)

• Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (RSS feed). From the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories.

B

• Be Openly Accessible or Be Obscure (RSS feed). From Jim Till.

• BioMed Central Blog (RSS feed). From BioMed Central.

• Blog do Kuramoto. From Hélio Kuramoto. In Portuguese

• Blog o Open Access (RSS feed). In Polish.

• Blog ONE (RSS feed). From Niyaz Ahmed.

• Blogue du GTA(RSS feed). In French.

C

• Caveat Lector (RSS feed). From Dorothea Salo.
  • Only the posts on open access (RSS feed).

• Chemistry Central Blog (RSS feed). From Gino D'Oca.

• Cibertecário 0.2 (RSS feed). In Portuguese. From Eloy Rodrigues.

• Citizendium Blog (RSS feed). From Larry Sanger.

• ©ollectanea (RSS feed)

• Common Knowledge (RSS feed). From John Wilbanks.

• Create Change (RSS feed)

• Creative Commons (RSS feed)

D

• DataShare Blog (RSS feed). From the JISC DataShare project.

• Digging Digitally (RSS feed). "Archaeology, data sharing, digitally enabled research and education." Main author is Erik Kansa.

• Digital & Scholarly (RSS feed). From Adrian K. Ho.

• DigitalKoans (RSS feed). From Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

• Digital Repositories and Open Access at Auraria. (RSS feed). From the Auraria Library for the the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and Community College of Denver.

• Digital Repositories and Preservation (RSS feed)

E

• La Ecología de los Repositorios (RSS feed). In Spanish.

• eprint blog (RSS feed). From Guy Aron.

• EPrints Insiders (RSS feed). From Steve Hitchcock.

• EPrints News (RSS feed). From EPrints.

• EPT (Electronic Publishing Trust for Development) (RSS feed). From Barbara Kirsop.

F

• Film Studies For Free (RSS feed). From Catherine Grant.

• Free Government Information (RSS feed). From Jim A. Jacobs and others.

• Free Our Data (RSS feed). From Charles Arthur.

• Free the Books. From Georgia Harper and Maria E. Gonzalez at the University of Texas Libraries. (No RSS feed?)

G

• Gavin Baker (RSS feed). From Gavin Baker.
  • Only the posts about open access (RSS feed)

• Gray Area (RSS feed). From Eve Gray.

• Gutam Sridhar on Open Access Journals in Agriculture (RSS feed). From Sridhar Gutam.

I

• iCommons.org (RSS feed)

• The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (RSS feed). From Heather Morrison.

• Informationsplattform Open Access (RSS feed). In German. A joint project of the Universities of Bielefeld, Goettingen, Constance, and the Free University of Berlin.

• Intellectual Property Watch (RSS feed)

• In Between: Scholarly Online Publishing, Open Access and Library Related Technology (RSS feed). From Henk Ellermann and Hanne Allenspach.

• Issues in Scholarly Communication (RSS feed)

• iterating toward openness (RSS feed). From David Wiley.

J

• John Wilbanks' Blog (RSS feed). From John Wilbanks.

• Journalology (RSS feed). From Matt Hodgkinson.

K

• Knowledge Ecology International (RSS feed)

L

• L’édition électronique ouverte (RSS feed). In French. From Marin Dacos and others at the Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (CLEO).

• Legal Sources Subject to Open (RSS feed). From Ned Swanner, Olugbenga Ademodi, and Robb Farmer.

• Lessig blog (RSS feed). From Lawrence Lessig.

• Liquid Pub Project (RSS feed). From LiquidPub.

M

• McBlawg (RSS feed). From Graham Steel.

• Michael Geist Blog (RSS feed). From Michael Geist.

O

• OA@UCD (RSS feed). From the University College Dublin.

• OA Librarian (RSS feed). From Heather Morrison.

• OA/UofA: Open Access Publishing Information for the University of Alberta Community (RSS feed).

• OAMPHJ (Open Access Medical and Public Health Journals: links to latest updates) (RSS feed).

• OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook) (RSS feed). From Leslie Chan and Alma Swan. The blog is the front page of the OASIS site.

• OERderves (RSS feed). From Marshall Smith, Catherine Casserly, and Phoenix Wang.

• OER in Health (RSS feed).

• Open... (RSS feed). From Glyn Moody.

• Open2Learn (RSS feed). From Robert Hughes, Jr.

• openarchives.gr/blog (RSS Feed). In Greek. From Vangelis Banos.

• OpenContentLawyer (RSS feed). From Jordan S. Hatcher.

• OpenCourseWare blog (RSS feed). From Mike Caulfield.

• Open.Michigan Blog. From the University of Michigan's Open.Michigan portal. (No RSS feed?)

• OpenWetWare Community Blog (RSS feed). From OpenWetWare.

• Open Access (RSS feed). In Spanish. From Alicia López Medina and others.

• Open Access Anthropology (RSS feed). From Kerim Friedman, Alex Golub, Kambiz Kamrani, and Christopher Kelty.

• Open Access Archivangelism (RSS feed). From Stevan Harnad.

• Open Access Blog. From Nathan Georgette. (No RSS feed?)

• Open Access Day (RSS feed). From SPARC, PLoS, and Students for Free Culture.

• Open Access, Freedom Space (RSS feed). From Zhiming Wang.

• Open Access Japan (RSS feed). Maintained by Shinji Mine. In Japanese.

• Open Access News (RSS feed). From Peter Suber and Gavin Baker.
  • Only the Hot stories (RSS feed) from June 27, 2008 onward.

• Open and Shut? (RSS feed). From Richard Poynder.

• Open Chemistry Web (RSS feed). From Will Griffiths.

• Open Content Alliance blog (RSS feed). From the OCA (the blog is its home page).

• Open Archaeology (RSS feed). From IOSA.it. (The blog is the IOSA.it home page.)

• Open Course Ware blog (RSS feed). From John Dehlin and others.

• Open Data Commons (RSS feed). From Jordan Hatch.

• Open Education News (RSS feed). From David Wiley and others.

• Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog (RSS feed). From Rufus Pollock and others.

• Open Knowledge Society Blog. From the Open Knowledge Society.

• Open Reading Frame (RSS feed). From Bill Hooker.
  • Open Access/Open Science category

• Open Reflections (RSS feed). From Janneke Adema.

• Open Repository Blog (RSS feed). From Graham Triggs.

• Opening Scientific Communication (RSS feed). From the Euroscience Working Group on Open Access.

• Open Students (RSS feed). From Gavin Baker.

• OptimalScholarship (RSS feed). From Alma Swan.

P

• The Parachute (RSS feed). From Jan Velterop.

• PhysMath Central Blog (RSS feed). From Chris Leonard.

• Plausible Accuracy (RSS feed)

• Public Library of Science (RSS feed)

• Public Knowledge Project (RSS feed)

• Publishing Archaeology Blog (RSS feed). From Michael E. Smith.

R

• RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) (RSS feed). From Christian Zimmermann.

• RepositoryMan (RSS feed). From Les Carr.

• RSP Blog Directory. From The JISC-funded Repositories Support Project.

S

• Scholarly Communication in Engineering (RSS feed)

• Scholarly Communication, Open Access, Open Science (RSS feed). From the University of Texas at Arlington.

• Scholarly Communications @ Duke (RSS feed). From Kevin Smith.

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (RSS feed). From Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

• The Scholar's Space (RSS feed)

• Science Commons (RSS feed)

• Science in the open From Cameron Neylon

• SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) (RSS feed)

• Sphere. In Portuguese. From Eloy Rodrigues and others.

• Spreading Science (RSS feed). From Richard Gayle and others.
  • Only the posts about open access.

• Students for Free Culture (RSS feed)

• Students for Free Culture - Chapter News (RSS feed)

T

• Terra Incognita (RSS feed). From Ken Udas.

• Transforming Scholarly Communication (RSS feed). From Adrian Ho.

U

• Useful Chemistry (RSS feed). From Jean-Claude Bradley and others.

V

• VIKAS PSOAR. Pharmaceutical Sciences Open Access Resources: Vikas PSOAR and Vikas PGIAR. From Vikas Anand Saharan, Mahesh Kataria, and Vipin Kukkar.

W

• Wissenschaftsurheberrecht (RSS feed). From Eric Steinhauer. In German.

• World of Chemistry for All - Free Chemistry Online Resources. Anon.

Z

• Zugang zum Wissen Journal (RSS feed). In German. From Eberhard Hilf.