Discussion forums

From OAD

• This is a list of discussion forums (mailing lists, listservs, etc.) centered on OA issues or where OA discussions are frequent and welcome.
• When possible, indicate whether the forum is moderated and, if so, by whom.
• Alphabetical order.

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Contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 G 7 I 8 J 9 L 10 M 11 O 12 P 13 R 14 S 15 W

A

• American Scientist Open Access Forum (aka AmSci Forum, September98 Forum) from American Scientist. Moderated by Stevan Harnad.

B

• BOAI Forum. The forum associated with the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Moderated by Iryna Kuchma.

C

• Commons Research.

• CopyrightandA2Kinfo. From Denise Nicholson.

D

• Digital Repository Federation ML. from Digital Repository Federation, a federation, which aims to promote Open Access and Institutional Repository in Japan.

E

• Economics of Open Access. Moderated by Alastair Dryburgh.

• eifloa: eIFL - Open Access program announcement and discussion list. From eIFL.

• Eprints Community. The forum associated with the eprints archiving software.

G

• Guerilla Open Access.

I

• Indian Open Access Forum. "A forum for achieving Open Access in India."

J

• JISC-REPOSITORIES. "For general, cross domain issues" about repositories.

L

• Lista Latinoamericana sobre Acceso Abierto y Repositorios. In Spanish.

M

• MERLOT-Africa. On OA and OERs in Africa.

O

• OAI-Eprints list from the Open Archives Initiative.

• Open Data Commons Discuss List.

• Open Access and Information for Development. Unmoderated?

• Open Case Law. A Google Group. Unmoderated?

• Open Knowledge Foundation Lists. The Open Knowledge Foundation runs several discussion lists related to open access. See in particular:
  • okfn-discuss - for discussion of open knowledge related activities, projects, etc.;
  • open-science - general discussion list for open science.
  • pd-calculators - for discussion of public domain calculators project
  • ok-berlin - local list for Berlin, DE
  • ok-cam-announce - local list for Cambridge, UK
  • ok-london-announce - local list for London, UK
  • ok-ox-discuss - local list for Oxford, UK

• OS-Repositorios is a forum on institutional repositories in Spain and OA issues, in general. Administered by Reme Melero. To subscribe the list send an email to <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES> with the message 'Subscribe OS-Repositorios Name Surname' in the body of the message.

• Ozeprints. On OA archiving developments in Australia. Moderated by Belinda Weaver. To subscribe, send an e-mail to <listserv@library.uq.edu.au> with the message 'subscribe ozeprints' in the body of the message.

P

• PLoS Community Boards from the Public Library of Science.

R

• REPOMAN-L. A list for repository managers.

S

• ScholComm from the American Library Association. On scholarly communication.

• Shared Knowledge. From Citizendium but the discussion is not limited to Citizendium.

• SPARC Author Rights Forum. From SPARC. Moderated by Kevin Smith.

• SPARC Institutional Repositories. From SPARC.

• SPARC Open Access Forum (SOAF) from SPARC. On OA developments broadly construed. Moderated by Stacie Lemick.

• SPARC Open Data. From SPARC. Moderated by Peter Murray-Rust.

• SSP-L from the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

W

• WSIS Follow-up: C3 - Access to Information and Knowledge. From UNESCO.