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Principles & statements

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Adopted at the conference on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, 20 - 22 Oct 2003, Berlin

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
A document drafted during a meeting on April 11, 2003 at the headquarters of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, in order to stimulate discussion on open access within the biomedical research community.

Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), a series of principles for promoting and maintaining open access developed at a Meeting of the Academies of Sciences in Budapest, January 2003.

IFLA Statement on open access to scholarly literature and research documentation
A statement adopted by the Governing Board of IFLA (the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) at its meeting in The Hague on 5th December 2003.

Washington D.C. principles for free access to science
The principles outlining the commitment of not-for-profit publishers to providing free access and wide dissemination of research findings.

Publishers

Bioline International
A non-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries.

BioMed Central (BMC)
A UK based publishing house, provides immediate and open access to full-text of research articles published in its 100+ online journals covering all areas of biology and medicine.

Public Library of Science (PLoS), a California non-profit group of bioscientists formed in 2000, publishes two online peer-reviewed journals: PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine. In 2005, PLoS will begin publishing three new journals: PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, and PLoS Pathogenes.

Initiatives

caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid)
Developed under the leadership of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Bioinformatics, caBIG is an open-access information network, or grid, that enables cancer researchers to share tools, data, applications and technologiesn standards.

E-Print Network: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers
A search tool that that combines full-text searching through PDF documents residing on websites. Reveals research mainly in physical sciences but also in life sciences, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines.

MARS (Mason Archival Repository Service)
A digital archiving system and an institutional repository at George Mason University.

Advocacy

BioMed Central: Advocacy
Includes presentations, posters, ads, and other free downloadable advocacy resources.

Create Change
An advocacy and education resource cosponsored with the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of College and Research Libraries. Includes downloadable brochures.

Open Access Now: Advocacy/Posters
Includes 10 downloadable posters.

Articles

Scientific research: The publication dilemma
An article by Victoria Shelton, Life Sciences Librarian, GMU Libraries

Presentations

BioMed Central: Power Point Slide Presentations
Two downloadable power point slide presentations outlining the basic principles of open access publishing model.

The case for Institutional repositories
A presentation by Richard K. Johnson, SPARC Communications Manager.

Igniting Change in Scholarly Communication;
A presentation by Richard K. Johnson, SPARC Communications Manager.

Open Access Institutional Memberships: Who Benefits? Who Pays?
A presentation by Lene Palmer and Victoria Shelton, George Mason University. Presented at the Virginia Library Accossiation Conference, October 2004.

Open Access: Overview and Issues
A presentation by Kristin Antelman and Peggy Hoon, North Carolina State University. Presented at the Triangle Research Libraries Network Annual Meeting, July 21, 2004, Chapel Hill, NC

Open Access: Unlocking the Value of Research
A presentation by Richard K. Johnson, SPARC Communications Manager.

Two routes to open access
A presentation by Dr. Thomas J. Walker, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville, at the American Library Association 2004 Annual Conference.

What is open access? How can you provide OA to your own work?
A presentation by Peter Suber from the conference "Copyright, Scholarship, and the Case for Open Access" (University of Maine, November 20, 2004).

Conferences

Copyright, Scholarship, and the Case for Open Access
University of Maine, November 20, 2004. Includes the presentations from the conference.

Freedom of Information Conference 2000
(Includes abstracts and transcripts from the conference)

News

Open Access News
News about the open access movement edited by Peter Suber.

Open Access Now
A publication by BioMed Central containing news, links, interviews, advocacy information, downloadable posters, etc.

SciDev Net (Science and Development Network)
Includes news, opinions, and feature articles on scientific publishing, including open access.

SPARC E-News
A bimonthly newsletter containing Publisher Partner items and SPARC activities.

SPARC Open Access Newsletter
A monthly newsletter covering the developments related to open-access publishing authored by Peter Suber.