Buzzwords
|
Quick Hit
|
More Information |
|
ArXiv
|
High energy physics e-print server at Cornell, formerly at Los Alamos
|
http://xxx.arxiv.cornell.edu/
|
|
Berlin Declaration
|
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, October 2003; outcome of international conference on open access
|
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
|
|
BioOne
|
A web-based aggregation of research in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Under development by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), SPARC, the University of Kansas, the Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium, and Allen Press
|
www.bioone.org
|
|
BioMed Central
|
UK Publisher of open access biology and medical journals (100+)
|
www.biomedcentral.com/
|
|
Budapest Open Access Initiative
|
Arose from a small but lively meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2, 2001
|
www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
|
|
California Digital Library
|
Established in 1997 as a UC library, the CDL has become one of the largest digital libraries in the world
|
www.cdlib.org/
|
|
CODA
|
CalTech Collection of Open Digital Archives Institutional Repository
|
http://library.caltech.edu/digital/
|
|
CONTENTdm
|
Software for digital collections management
|
http://contentdm.com/
|
|
Cornyn-Leibman Act
|
Federal Research Public Access Act (also known as the Cornyn-Leibman Act; Senate Bill 2695)
a bill that, if passed, will require every federal agency with an annual research budget of more than $100 million to implement a public access policy.
|
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.02695:
|
|
Creative Commons
|
A publishing initiative that balances copyright with open access
|
http://creativecommons.org/
|
Create Change
|
Includes FAQs for faculty and sample letters to journal publishers
and editors
|
www.createchange.org/
|
Disciplinary Repositories
|
One response has been for publishers, societies, and scholars to create
new mechanisms for distribution of scholarship, within disciplines
or disciplinary groups. |
http://library.pdx.edu/dr.html
|
|
DOAJ
|
Directory of Open Access Journals (2481) hosted by Lund University Libraries (Sweden)
|
www.doaj.org/
|
|
D-Space
|
Software for digital collections management; developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard (HP); freely available to research institutions worldwide as an open source system that can be customized and extended
|
www.dspace.org/
|
|
FRPA
|
Federal Research Public Access Act (also known as the Cornyn-Leibman Act; Senate Bill 2695) a bill that, if passed, will require every federal agency with an annual research budget of more than $100 million to implement a public access policy.
|
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.02695:
|
|
Information Access Alliance
|
Alliance pushing for antitrust review in publisher mergers
|
www.informationaccess.org
|
| Institutional Repositories
|
Many academic institutions archive their scholarly output. Some include works not published elsewhere (grey literature)
|
http://library.pdx.edu/ir.html
|
|
JSTOR
|
Content repository - full-text digitized multidisciplinary scholarly journal archive established as an independent not-for-profit organization in August 1995
|
www.jstor.org/
|
| Multidisciplinary Repositories |
Commercially available multidisciplinary repositories provide archived, full-text,
digital access to a broad variety of published journal articles. Frequently collaborative projects between universities and
publishers, multidisciplinary repositories provide affordable access and help mitigate corporate monopolization. JSTOR and Project MUSE are the most visible initiatives making headway toward sustainable publishing |
http://library.pdx.edu/mr.html
|
|
NIH Initiative
|
Notice from September 2004, currently taking comments, on plans to facilitate enhanced public access to NIH-funded health related research information through open access
|
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide
/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html
|
|
Open Access
|
Shorthand for both an idea, that the results of publicly funded research be freely available, and for a movement, characterized by various initiatives to make published scholarly literature freely available on the web
|
http://library.pdx.edu/openaccess.html
|
|
Open Archives Initiative
|
Develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The OAI has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. Supported by the Digital Library Federation, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the National Science Foundation
|
www.openarchives.org/
|
|
PLoS
|
Public Library of Science, a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource; pioneers in open access publishing models
|
www.plos.org
|
|
Project Euclid
|
Disciplinary repository, math and statistics
|
http://projecteuclid.org
|
|
Project Muse
|
Content repository - full-text digitized scholarly journal collection (250 titles from 40 publishers) multidisciplinary --Johns Hopkins University Press
|
http://muse.jhu.edu
|
|
PubMed Central
|
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
|
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
|
|
RePE
|
Research Papers in Economics-
a collaborative effort of 100+ volunteers in 44 countries to enhance dissemination of research in economics. A decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components
|
http://repec.org/
|
|
RoMEO Project
|
Rights Metadata for Open archiving -- a project (2002-2003) funded to investigate the rights issues surrounding the 'self-archiving' of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative'sProtocol for Metadata Harvesting
|
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments
/ls/disresearch/romeo/
|
|
Scholars Bank
|
Institutional repository, University of Oregon
|
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu
|
Science Commons
|
An offshoot of the Creative Commons providing authors with tools to
share their work, making it easier for scientists, universities, and
enterprises to share scientific literature
|
http://sciencecommons.org/
|
|
SHERPA
|
Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access - a project to investigate the IPR, quality control and other issues associated with making research literature freely available to the research community.Investigates technical questions, including interoperability between repositories and digital preservation of e-prints -- hosted by the University of Nottingham. Site also hosts the Publishers Copyrights Listings (ROMEO) service (copyright transfer agreements)
|
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
|
|
SPARC
|
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, a worldwide alliance of research institutions, libraries
and organizations that facilitates the use of technology to expand access, and partners with
publishers that bring top-quality, low-cost research to a greater
audience.
|
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
|
|
Tempe Principles
|
Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing -- derived from a meeting in Tempe, AZ March 2000 sponsored by the Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Merrill Advanced Studies Center of the University of Kansas
|
http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html
|
