Open Access Guide

CHORUS is a suite of services and best practices that provides a sustainable solution for agencies and publishers to deliver public access to published articles reporting on funded research in the United States.

Knowledge Unlatched is helping stakeholders to work together for a sustainable open future for specialist scholarly books. Our vision is a healthy market that includes free access for end users.

The Open Access Button is a browser bookmarklet thata llows people to report when they hit a paywall and cannot access a research article. When a user reports not being able to access a research article, the Open Access Button records the user’s location, their profession, and why they were looking for this research. The Open Access Button then integrates this information onto a map to create a real time, worldwide, interactive picture of the access problem. The integration of social media will allow you to make this problem visible to the world. The Open Access Button then has ways to help you find the research you need

The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.

Compiled by MIT Libraries

The SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) is a higher education and research community initiative to ensure the preservation of, access to, and reuse of research outputs.

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.

Animated video created by Jorge Cham, creator of the comic strip PhD Comics; Nick Shockey of the Right to Research Coalition; and Jonathan Eisen, a biologist at the University of California Davis.

Blog author: Kevin Smith.
As Duke University’s first Scholarly Communications Officer, Kevin Smith’s principal role is to teach and advise faculty, administrators and students about copyright, intellectual property licensing and scholarly publishing.

The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing is “[t]o advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking.” The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog aimed to help fulfill this mission by bringing together differing opinions, commentary, and ideas, and presenting them openly.

Blog post from USAPP

Article from the Guardian

Blog post by Barbara Fister in Library Babel Fish

Article from the Guardian by Martin Hall, chair of Jisc and vice-chancellor of the University of Salford

Nature News Blog post by Richard Van Noorden on 22 February 2013