The Next Information Revolution - How Open Access will Transform Scholarly Communications

A collection of papers on this topic can be found at http://www.lib.utk.edu/~jon/crisis.html

http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/graphs/2002/2002t2.html

Peter Suber (2003) “Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians” http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm

Report of the Research Support Libraries Group, 2003, http://www.rslg.ac.uk/

Roosendaal, Hans E. and Peter A. Th. M. Geurts (1998). “Forces and functions in scientific communication: an analysis of their interplay.” CRISP 97

http://www.soros.org/openaccess

Crow, R. (2002). “The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper.” http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html

For details of institutional repository technical specifications see the Open Archive Initiative, http://www.openarchives.org

An excellent expansion of the benefits of open access is given in Suber’s paper, ref. 3 above.

See the Crow and Goldstein ‘Guides to business planning for open access journals’ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/index.shtml

Details of the various Institutional Repository software can be found at: GNU Eprints - http://software.eprints.org/, DSpace - http://www.dspace.org/, CDSWare - http://cdsware.cern.ch/, Arno - http://www.uba.uva.nl/arno

SHERPA - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/, DARE - http://www.surf.nl/en/themas/index2.php?oid=7, Australian initiative - http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/McGauran/2003/10/mcg002221003.asp

http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html

http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=c0

http://www.doaj.org

http://www.plos.org

Prosser, D.C. (2003). “From Here to There: A Proposed Mechanism for Transforming Journals from Closed to Open Access”. Learned Publishing, Vol. 16, pp. 163-166 (An earlier version is available at: http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=g29)

Oxford University Press - http://www3.oup.co.uk/nar/special/14/default.html, Company of Biologists - http://www.biologists.com/openaccess.html, American Physiological Society - http://www.the-aps.org/publications/pg/interest.htm

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtvispolpub.html

http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

The announcement of the inquiry can be found at http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technology_committee/scitech111203a.cfm, while transcripts of the oral sessions are at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmsctech.htm

http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0311&L=pamnet&D=1&O=D&P=1632

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_08_31_fosblogarchive.html#a106276332667919229

See, for example, Create Change (www.createchange.org)

http://www.sparceurope.org