Open Access Journal Resource

(1) General background

• Academic publishing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_publishing

• Open access (publishing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_(publishing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_%28publishing%29

• ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies) as recommended by the Berlin Declaration

http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

• Peter Suber's "Open Access Overview"

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

(2) Text of the “Budapest Open Access Initiative”

http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Open_Access_Initiative

(3) Text of the “Bethesda Declaration on Open Access Publishing”

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm

(4) Text of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences report on "Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences"

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309088593

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10613

(5) Text of the European “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”

http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Declaration_on_Open_Access_to_Knowledge_in_the_Sciences_and_Humanities

(6) Text of Open Access Policy from the U.S. National Institutes of Health

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

(7) Text of Open Access Policy from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

http://www.hhmi.org/about/research/sc320.pdf

http://www.hhmi.org/about/research/QA_papp.pdf

(8) Text of the Wellcome Trust's "Position Statement in Support of Open and Unrestricted Access to Published Research"

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Policy/index.htm

(9) Text of Public Library of Science "Open Letter to Scientific Publishers" (signed by ~34,000 scholars worldwide)

http://www.plos.org/about/letter.php

(10) Text of Research Councils of the UK "Access to Research Outputs"

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/cmsweb/downloads/rcuk/documents/2006statement.pdf

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/cmsweb/downloads/rcuk/news/oareport.pdf

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/outputs/access/default.htm

(11) Text of EUROPEAN RESEARCH ADVISORY BOARD FINAL REPORT "SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION: POLICY ON OPEN ACCESS"

http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/pdf/eurab_scipub_report_recomm_dec06_en.pdf

(12) Text of Bulletin of the World Health Organization "Equitable access to scientific and technical information for health"