List of open access projects
Some of the most important open access publishing projects or lists of such projects are listed below.
[edit] OA Journal Software
Free, open source software for open access journal publishing is available for those wishing to start up new journals, for example, the Open Journal Systems (OJS)[1] developed by the Public Knowledge Project[2] and HyperJournal[3] developed by volunteers, but now partially funded by the political science faculty of Pisa University[4]. While OJS and HyperJournal are designed for academic publishing, they can be used by anyone; for instance there is a group of grade 8 girls in Vancouver, British Columbia, who use OJS to publish their own peer-reviewed journal.
[edit] OA Repository Software
Free, open source software for creating open access Institutional Repositories is available for institutions who do not yet have a repository, for example:
[edit] Open access publishers
- Libertas Academica Ltd
- Ivyspring International Publisher
- Molecular Diversity Preservation International
- Public Library of Science
- Hindawi (49 full open access STM journals)
- Scholarly Exchange
- Medknow Publications (Publishers of Biomedical Journal from India)
- Copernicus open-access journals
- Academic Journals of The College of Mexico
- Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) [5] - one of the first Open Access journals in medicine
- BioMed Central
- SciELO
- Scholarly Exchange
- eScholarship
- United States National Academy of Sciences
[edit] Institutional and Central Repositories
A repository is different from a journal. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles from many journals self-archived by their authors, as well as other kinds of material. Most repositories are distributed, institutional and cross-disciplinary, and some are central, cross-institutional and discipline-based. Here are some examples of central, discipline-based repositories (For Institutional Repositories, see Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).
- arXiv: Physics/Mathematics OA Archive (central)
- CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences OA Archive (central)
- Citebase: Citation-linked browser (harvested from distributed websites)
- Citeseer: Computer Science (harvested from distributed websites)
- OpenMED@NIC: An open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences
- PubMed Central: the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
- Research Papers in Economics: a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 45 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.
- NNMATH a project in progress to create an open access database of reviews of mathematical articles.
[edit] Harvesters and Registries of Repositories
- The University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registry
- Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
- OAIster list
- Openarchives.eu
- Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR Registry of Open Access Repositories)
- Openarchives.eu - The European Guide to OAI-PMH Digital Repositories in the World
[edit] Publishers of hybrid open access journals
- Springer (Offers open access as an option in all its 1200+ journals)
- Elsevier (Offers open access as an option in many of its 2000+ journals)
For a fuller list, see: Hybrid open access journals
[edit] Lists of open access journals (all fields, not institution-specific)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- JournalSeek
- LivRe
- Open J-Gate
- University of Nevada Collection of Free Electronic Journals
- RevistasCSIC.es Open access publishing Scientific Journals published by CSIC, covering subjects in Science, Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. Articles in Spanish,
- Perspectivia.net
- Die Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek English version)] (EZB) Increasingly out-of-date at 2010.
- Jan Szczepanski's lists of OA-journals
For a more complete list, see:
[edit] Lists of open access journals limited to certain fields
[edit] Open access encyclopedias
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: an academic encyclopedia, produced by philosophy scholars
- Wikipedia: not necessarily written by academic authors
- Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science: "a natural expansion of the work carried out preparing the Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede, published in Italian in 2002 (Rome: Urbaniana University Press - Citta Nuova, 2002), partly translated into English and offered here on-line."
[edit] Open access image databases
- CAPL: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon Multilingual, visual lexicon from Washington & Jefferson College
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- German National Image Database for Art and Architecture
[edit] Open access research tools
- JURN a search-engine for 3,800 open ejournals in the arts and humanities
[edit] Tracking open access developments
- SPARC Open Access Newsletter, news and analysis by Peter Suber
- American Scientist Open Access Forum, covering open access developments since its founding by Stevan Harnad in 1998
- Open Access Archivangelism, a weblog by Stevan Harnad
[edit] Policies and timelines
- Peter Suber's list of the better lists
- Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)
- ROMEO/Eprints Registry of Journal Self-Archiving Policies
- SHERPA/RoMEO Registry of Publisher Self-Archiving Policies
- Peter Suber's lists related to the OA movement
- Peter Suber's list of OA-related conferences and workshops
- Peter Suber's timeline of the OA movement
- Peter Suber's list of what you can do to promote open access
- An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 25 Nobel Prize Winners (August 26, 2004) in support of a bill requiring all research funded by the National Institutes of Health to be published in an open access form
