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About Open Access
- A Very Brief Introduction to Open Accessby Peter Suber
- A Not-so Brief Introduction to Open Accessby Peter Suber
More on Open Access
- SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources CoalitionAn international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.
- The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position PaperPrepared by Raym Crow, SPARC Senior Consultant
- Hiding Your Research Behind a Paywall is ImmoralAs a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable
- The Inevitability of Open AccessArticle that suggests that Gold OA could account for 50% of the scholarly journal articles sometime between 2017 and 2021, and 90% of articles as soon as 2020 and more conservatively by 2025.
- OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information SourcebookOASIS: Making the Case for Open Access
- Open Access and the Future of Academic Scholarshipby Barbara Fister
Open Access in 3 Minutes
Types of Open Access (OA)
Gold OA - Open Access delivered by journals
Open access journals provide immediate open access to all of their articles on the publisher's website.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Green OA- Open Access delivered by repositories
Authors publish in any journal and then self-archive a version of the article for public use in their institutional repository, in a central repository (such as PubMed Central), or on some other open access website.
More Information on the types of Open Access by Peter Suber
Myths about Open Access
Open Access Books
SBN: 0262517639
Publication Date: 2012-07-20
--FREE full-text download from MIT Press--
A concise and easy introduction to open access. Peter Suber explains what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold.
A concise and easy introduction to open access. Peter Suber explains what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold.
Publication Date: 2005-10-07
SBN: 0838911064
Publication Date: 2011-03-14
While aimed a librarians this ALA Special Report offers a short overview of the arguments in favor of OA and reasons why researchers, patrons and libraries need OA.