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Open Access Directory
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. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA.
OAD is a wiki and we count on our users to keep these lists accurate, comprehensive, and up to date. Our goal is for the OA community itself to maintain the lists with little intervention from the editors or editorial board. For quality control, we limit editing privileges to registered users. We welcome your contributions to the lists, ideas for new lists, and comments to help us improve OAD. Please contact us or use the discussion tabs on individual pages. OAD is hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.
- OAD News The OAD is delighted to host four lists in support of Open Access Day: Events celebrating Open Access Day, sponsored by the founders of OA Day, Educational materials about OA, Audio about OA, and Video about OA. The last three of these lists are looking especially for materials that other users can mine for ideas, and use with attribution, when preparing their own talks, slide shows, brochures, posters, videos, podcasts, and workshops. OAD merely links to these materials; it doesn't host its own copies. Show your commitment to OA Day and add content to these lists.
Thank you, Robin Peek, OAD Editor
Table of Contents
- Acronyms
- Audio about OA
- Bibliography of open access
- Blogs about OA
- Calls for papers
- Calls for proposals
- Data repositories
- Disciplinary repositories
- Discussion forums
- Educational materials about OA
- Events
- Events celebrating Open Access Day
- FAQs about OA
- Free and open-source journal management software
- Free and open-source repository software
- Guides for OA journal publishers
- Implementation resources for the NIH policy
- Institutions that support open access
- Jobs in open access
- Journal declarations of independence
- Lists maintained by others
- OA by the numbers
- OA journal business models
- OA speakers bureau
- Proposed lists. Add your suggestions here. These proposals may soon blossom into active lists.
- Periodicals that frequently publish articles about open access
- Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors
- Research in progress
- Research questions
- Services to support repository managers
- Statements by learned societies and professional associations
- Video about OA
- Wikis about OA
Lists under development. These lists have been accepted by the editors for inclusion and are now undergoing final refinements before moving to the table of contents.
For an overview, see this list of all OAD articles.
