Discussion forums

From OAD

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This is a list of discussion forums (mailing lists, listservs, etc.) centered on OA issues or where OA discussions are frequent and welcome. It also includes OA-related networking groups with discussion components. The list does not include Twitter feeds.
• When possible, indicate whether the forum is moderated and, if so, by whom. If the list is not primarily in English, please indicate the primary language.
• Alphabetical order.

• Related lists in OAD: (1) Blogs about OA and (2) Social media sites about OA.

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Contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 I 9 J 10 L 11 M 12 N 13 O 14 P 15 R 16 S 17 V 18 W

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• A2K (Access to Knowledge). Moderated by Manon Ress of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI).

• American Scientist Open Access Forum (aka AmSci Forum, September98 Forum) from American Scientist. Moderated by Stevan Harnad.
  • This forum changed its name, archive URL, and moderator on December 13, 2011. See Global Open Access List (GOAL), below.

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

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• California Electronic Theses and Dissertations (CAETD) Interest Group. Its listserv is by invitation only.

• CARPET Forum. From the CARPET (Community for Academic Reviewing, Publishing and Editorial Technology) project.

• Commons Research.

• CopyrightandA2Kinfo. From Denise Nicholson.

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• Digital Humanities Questions & Answers. From the Association For Computers And The Humanities.
  • Also see the discussion threads tagged with "open access".

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

• dpla-discussion. From the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) project.

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• Economics of Open Access. Moderated by Alastair Dryburgh.

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

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

• The experts forum. From the information platform open-access.

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• fcforum. The Free Culture Forum (FCF) from the Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to knowledge.

• FoRC. A Google Group from Force11.

• FreeTextbooks. From Free Culture.

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• Global Open Access List (GOAL). Moderated by Richard Poynder.
  • This list is the successor to the American Scientist Open Access Forum, which ran from 1998 until 2011, and was moderated by Stevan Harnad.

• Guerilla Open Access.

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

• IP-OA Forum. "Expertenforum für die von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderte Informationsplattform Open Access." In German.

• IRtalk. "To discuss, communicate, share information on all open access and institutional repositories related issues in Africa and South Africa."

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

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

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

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• Nordic Open Access Publishing Project (NOAP). In Swedish and English.

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• OAI-Eprints list from the Open Archives Initiative.

• OaPN @ CUNY. From the Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY.

• OData Mailing List. From the Open Data Protocol.

• OpenAIRE-ga. From the OpenAIRE General Assembly.

• Open Access. One of the groups in the WSIS Community of Platforms. By invitation only.

• Open Access and Information for Development. Unmoderated?

• Open Access India. Google group, launched in July 2011.

• Open_Access_Journals. A moderated Yahoo group.

• Open Case Law. Google group. Unmoderated?

• Open Data Commons Discuss List.

• Open Journal System interessenetværk. On OJS and OCS, from the Nordic OxS User Group. Mostly in Danish, with some Swedish, Norwegian, and English.

• Open Knowledge Foundation Lists. The Open Knowledge Foundation runs several discussion lists related to open access. See in particular:
  • ok-berlin - local list for Berlin, DE
  • ok-cam-announce - local list for Cambridge, UK
  • ok-edinburgh - local list for Edinburgh
  • ok-london-announce - local list for London, UK
  • ok-ox-discuss - local list for Oxford, UK
  • okfn-discuss - for discussion of open knowledge related activities, projects, etc.
  • open-archaeology - a list for those interested in open data in archaeology.
  • open-companies - A list for those interested in open data about companies
  • open-heritage - a list for people interested in open data and open content in the cultural heritage sector.
  • open-legislation - a list for people interested in tracking legislation in a transparent fashion.
  • open-literature - discussion of the Open Shakespeare project and "open literature" in general
  • open-science - general discussion list for open science.
  • pd-calculators - for discussion of public domain calculators project

• 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.

• OUseful.Info (RSS feed). "Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education." From Tony Hirst.

• 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.

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• PLoS Community Boards from the Public Library of Science.

• Peer to Peer Foundation Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices

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• REPOMAN-L. A list for repository managers.

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• ScholComm from the Association of College and Research Libraries. 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.

• SPARC Subject Repositories Forum. From SPARC. Moderated by Jessica Adamick, Julie Kelly, and Rebecca Reznik-Zellen.

• SSP-L from the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

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• Verbesserung des Zugangs zu wissenschaftlichen Informationen. In German.

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

• WSIS OA Knowledge Community. From UNESCO.