Blogs about OA

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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• This is list of blogs which focus largely on open access.

• Please indicate the blog's author or primary authors. When its primary language is not English, please indicate what it is.

• Alphabetical.

• If a blog is no longer updated, move it from the active blog list to the discontinued blog list.

• Related lists in OAD: (1) Discontinued blogs about OA, (2) Discussion forums, (3) Social media sites about OA

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• Abierto al publico (RSS feed). In Spanish.

• About Open Access (RSS feed). From the University Medical Center Gronigen.

• @ccess. "Sharing the results of scientific research." (No RSS feed?) From the @ccess project.

• Acceso Abierto (RSS feed). From Carolina De Volder. In Spanish.

• "Access Denied?": Fighting for the 'Right to Open Access' (RSS feed) . A student-run blog inspired by the Right to Research Coalition.

• Access to Health Information (RSS feed). From Juan Ramos.

• Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (RSS feed). From Peter Magierski and Charles Ellwood Jones.

• Ancient World Open Bibliographies (RSS feed). From Chuck Jones.

• Ann's Blog. "My Musings on Open Science and Public Engagement."

• Anyway (RSS feed). From Marijke. In Dutch.

• Arab Initiatives of Open Access (RSS feed). From Sulieman Salem Alshuhri and others. In Arabic.

• Archivalia: Category Open Access (RSS Feed). From Klaus Graf. In German.
  • Contains also entries in English on Open Access: English Corner

• Association of Research Libraries - Scholarly Communication (RSS feed)

• Australian Open Access Support Group (RSS feed). "Supporting open access to Australian research".

• Author Rights Model License Language (RSS feed for news/updates to the blog) (RSS feed for comments about the language)

• autour de l'Open Science (RSS feed). From Nadege Joly and Taina Cluzeau. In French.

• AWOL - The Ancient World Online (RSS feed). In English. From Charles Jones.

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• Be Openly Accessible or Be Obscure (RSS feed). From Jim Till.

• BioMed Central Blog (RSS feed). From BioMed Central.

• BioSharing (RSS feed). From Dawn Field.

• Blog do Kuramoto. From Hélio Kuramoto. In Portuguese

• Blog ONE (RSS feed). From Niyaz Ahmed.

• Brainstorm in Progress (RSS feed). From Geoff Cain.

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• City Open Access (RSS feed). From Neil Stewart at City University.

• College Open Textbooks Blog (RSS feed). From Sharyn Fitzpatrick and Rod Kirk.

• communs / commons / comuns / comunes (No RSS feed). The blog associated with the Public Domain Manifesto. In French.

• Comptoir de l'accès ouvert (RSS feed). OA and libraries. In french.

• Copyright and "Open" Movements Blog (RSS feed). From James D. "Kip" Currier.

• Copyright on Campus (RSS feed). From Christine Ross

• Create Change (RSS feed)

• Creative Commons (RSS feed)

• Cureus Blog (No RSS feed). Associated with Cureus, the open access medical science journal.

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• DataUp (RSS feed). From the University of California Curation Center (UC3) and the California Digital Library.

• Digging Digitally (RSS feed). From Erik Kansa.

• Digital & Scholarly (RSS feed). From Adrian K. Ho.

• DigitalKoans (RSS feed). From Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

• Directory of Open Access Books (RSS feed).

• Dryad news and views (RSS feed). From the Dryad open-data repository.

• DuraSpace Blog (RSS feed). From Carissa Smith, Carol Minton Morris, and Valorie Hollister at DuraSpace.

• Dynamic Repositories (RSS feed). From Paola Bongiovani. In Spanish.

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• E-LIS: Open Access Archive for LIS (RSS feed). From Alireza Noruzi. In Persian.

• End-to-End Open Access No RSS Feed?. From JISC.

• EPrints News (RSS feed). From EPrints.

• EPT (Electronic Publishing Trust for Development) (RSS feed). From Barbara Kirsop.

• EveryONE (RSS feed). From PLoS ONE.

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• Film Studies For Free (RSS feed). From Catherine Grant.

• Free as in Science (RSS feed). From Sandeep Gautam.

• Free Government Information (RSS feed). From Jim A. Jacobs and others.

• Fuse Open Science Blog (RSS Feed). From The Center for Translational Research in Public Health.

• Free US ETDs (FUSE). "Promoting Open Access to American graduate research". From Gail Clement.

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• Gavin Baker (RSS feed). From Gavin Baker.
  • Only the posts about open access (RSS feed)

• Gold Open Access Infrastructure.

• Gulliver Turtle's Blog (RSS feed). From Gulliver, BioMed Central's open access turtle.

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• A Hacker's View: Open Access, Digital Publishing, and Academic Writing (RSS feed). From Andrea Hacker.

• hinc-omnia (RSS feed) . Based out of Uniwersytet Warszawski. In Polish.

• Huddersfield Open Access Publishing (RSS feed). From the Huddersfield Open Access Publishing project, which is part of the JISC Digital infrastructure programme.

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• I Love Open Access "Arguments for Open Access to Research Results".

• iCommons.org (RSS feed)

• The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (RSS feed). From Heather Morrison.

• Indian IDR World (RSS feed). "Blog on Indian Institutional Repository." From Ziaul Haque.

• Informationsplattform Open Access (RSS feed). In German. A joint project of the Universities of Bielefeld, Goettingen, Constance, and the Free University of Berlin.

• Iniedigital (RSS feed) Education Research Institute (INIE)Journal Actualidades Investigativas en Educación University of Costa Rica. In Spanish. From Isabel Jara Quesada and Alejandro Vílchez Barboza.

• InTechWeb Blog (RSS feed). From InTechWeb.

• Intellectual Property and "Open" Movements Blog From James 'Kip' Currier, PhD, JD.

• Intellectual Property Watch (RSS feed)

• IOSA.it Open Archaeology (RSS feed). From Stefano Costa.

• Issues in Scholarly Communication (RSS feed)

• iterating toward openness (RSS feed). From David Wiley

• InfoDoc MicroVeille (RSS feed). From Hans Dillaerts

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• Jeszke (RSS feed). From ?ukasz Jeszke. In Polish.

• John Wilbanks' Blog (RSS feed). From John Wilbanks.

• JoRD. (RSS feed). From JoRD (Journal Research Data Policy Bank).

• Journalology (RSS feed). From Matt Hodgkinson.

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• Knowledge Ecology International (RSS feed)

• KnowledgeMaze (RSS Feed). From Access to Knowledge for Development Center

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• L’édition électronique ouverte (RSS feed). "The open electronic publishing blog." From Marin Dacos and others at the Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (CLEO). In French.

• Lessig blog (RSS feed). From Lawrence Lessig.

• Lever Initiative (No RSS feed). Investigating open access in American liberal arts colleges for The Oberlin Group.

• Libertas Academica (RSS feed). "Open access journals, science, and the publishing business." From Libertas Academica, the OA journal publisher.

• Liber-Libre[ http://erinclupp.wordpress.com/feed/ (RSS feed)]. From Erin Clupp, librarian, archivist and bookbinder.

• LOCH. Lessons in Open Access Compliance for Higher Education. (RSS Feed). From Dominik Tate, University of Edinburgh.

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• McBlawg (RSS feed). From Graham Steel.

• Medimise.com. (No RSS feed.) "Open Access Medical Research and Health News". Anon.

• Michael Geist Blog (RSS feed). From Michael Geist.

• MIT Society for Open Science (RSS feed). From the MIT student group, MIT Society for Open Science.

• Modus Operandi for Repository Deposits (RSS feed). From the JISC-Funded DepositMO project.

• Mohylianska bibliotekarka (RSS feed). From Tetiana Yaroshenko. In Ukrainian.

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• NARAtions (RSS feed). "A Blog about Online Public Access to the Records of the U.S. National Archives."

• Netzwerk von Open-Access-Repositorien (RSS feed). From the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI). In German.

• The New Open Access (NOA) for journal publishing industry (RSS feed). From Reza Farrahi.

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• Open Access India Building Open Access Movement in India.

• OA Bibliography (RSS feed). From Lucia Bertini. In English and Italian.

• OA Good Practice Pathfind Project - Bath (RSS feed). Reporting on the JISC-Funded Project run by the GW4 partnership between the University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University and University of Exeter.

• OA Librarian (RSS feed). From Heather Morrison and Andrew Waller.

• OA-RJ project blog (RSS feed). From the Open Access Repository Junction (OA-RJ) project.

• OA@UCD (RSS feed). From the University College Dublin.

• OAMPHJ (Open Access Medical and Public Health Journals: links to latest updates) (RSS feed).

• OASCIR (RSS feed). "Building an Institutional Repository for the University of Khartoum's Faculty of Science." From Pablo de Castro and Rania Baleela.

• OASPA News and Comment (RSS feed). From the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).

• The Occasional Pamphlet (RSS feed). From Stuart Shieber.

• OCW Blog (RSS feed). "Blogging the OpenCourseWare and OER Movements." From Mike Caulfield.

• OERderves (RSS feed). From Marshall Smith, Catherine Casserly, and Phoenix Wang.

• OER Research Hub (No RSS Feed). From Patrick McAndrew, Martin Weller, Robert Farrow, and Beck Pitt.

• OJS Latin America (RSS feed). "Regional news and information about Open Journal Systems." From Open Journal Systems.

• OKF Open Science Working Group (No RSS feed?). From Open Knowledge Foundation. In German.

• oMedPub (RSS feed). From iMedPub.

• Omega Alpha Open Access (RSS feed). "Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology." From Gary Daught.

• Open... (RSS feed). From Glyn Moody.

• Open Access all'Universita di Torino (No RSS feed). From L'Universita di Torino. In Italian.

• Open Access and Digital Scholarship Blog (RSS feed). From the Imperial College London.

• Open Access blogg RSS feed). In Norwegian.

• Open Access Initiatives: India (RSS feed). From Sehdeep Kaur at the University of British Columbia.

• Open Access for All (RSS feed). From Jenna Horowitz.

• Open Access Linguistics (RSS feed). From George Walken.

• Open Access - Making Sense (RSS feed). Associated with the JISC OA pathfinder project and Oxford Brookes University.fope

• Open Access to Scholarly Communication (RSS feed). From Frank van Laerhoven at Utrecht University.

• Open Access to Scientific Communication (RSS feed). From Hans Dillaerts and Helene Bosc. In English and French.

• Open Folklore (No RSS feed). From the Open Folklore Project, including Julie Bobay and Timothy Lloyd.

• Open Syllabus Project (No RSS feed). Created using a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

• openfigures (RSS feed). Compiled figures and images from open access papers from Public Library of Science (PLOS).

• OpenAccess@StAndrews. From St Andrews University Library.

• Open.Michigan blog. From the University of Michigan Open.Michigan project. (No RSS feed?)

• Openness is Freedom. From Simone Aliprandi.

• Open2Learn (RSS feed). From Robert Hughes, Jr.

• openarchives.gr/blog (RSS feed). In Greek. From Vangelis Banos.

• Open@VT (RSS feed). Open access at Virginia Tech. From Philip Young.

• OpenBibBlog (RSS feed). "Das Blog zu OpenBib und OPAC 2.0." From Oliver Flimm. In German.

• OpenBioMed.info (RSS feed). From Charlie Greenberg.

• OpenContentLawyer (RSS feed). From Jordan S. Hatcher.

• Openining Scholarship. (RSS feed) "Voices from the South." From Laura Czerniewicz, Eve Gray, Michael Paskevicius, Ed Rybicki, Shihaam Shaikh, and Michelle Willmers.

• Opening Science (RSS feed). From the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin.

• OpenPub(RSS feed).

• Open-STEPS (No RSS feed?). From Alex Corbi and Margo Thierry.

• OpenStreetMap Blog (RSS feed). From OpenStreetMap.

• The OpenScience Project (RSS feed). From Dan Gezelter and others, focusing on free and open-source scientific software.

• OpenWetWare Community Blog (RSS feed). From OpenWetWare.

• Open Access (RSS feed). From Karen Marie Øvern, Klaus Tollan, and Aneta Laskowsk. In Norwegian.

• Open Access @ CUNY (RSS feed). "Highlighting open access efforts across the University". From librarians at the City University of New York.

• Open Access Advocate (RSS feed). Anon.

• Open Access Anthropology (RSS feed). From Kerim Friedman, Alex Golub, Kambiz Kamrani, and Christopher Kelty.

• Open Access Archeology (RSS feed). From Doug.

• Open Access Archivangelism (RSS feed). From Stevan Harnad.

• Open Access Blog. In Dutch.

• Open Access & Open Data (RSS feed). From The Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands.

• Open Access, Freedom Space (RSS feed). From Zhiming Wang.

• Open Access Good Practice (RSS feed). From Sarah Fahmy.

• Open Access in Hannover (RSS feed). "Informationen und Veranstaltungen über Open Access in Hannover." In German.

• Open Access i Sverige "Kungliga bibliotekets blogg för alla som arbetar med open access i Sverige." (RSS feed). From Kungliga Bibliotekeket, The National Library of Sweden. In Swedish.

• Open Access Japan (RSS feed). Maintained by Shinji Mine. In Japanese.

• Open-Access-Netzwerk (RSS feed). From Robin Malitz. In German.

• An Open Access Peon. No RSS feed? From Tim Brody.

• Open Access Publisering (RSS feed). From Karen Marie Øvern. In Norwegian.

• Open Access Publishing Blog. (No RSS feed?)

• Open Access Week - October 19-23, 2009 (RSS feed).

• Open and Shut? (RSS feed). From Richard Poynder.

• Open Archaeology (RSS feed). From IOSA.it. (The blog is the IOSA.it home page.)

• Open Assembly Blog. Founded by Domi Enders.

• Open Bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data (RSS feed). From the Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Open Book Alliance (RSS feed). From Peter Brantley and Gary Reback. The blog is the OBA home page.

• Open Chemistry Web (RSS feed). From Will Griffiths.

• Open Citations (RSS feed). From The JISC Open Citations Project.

• Open Cloud Consortium (RSS feed).

• Open Content Alliance blog (RSS feed). From the OCA (the blog is its home page).

• Open Course Ware blog (RSS feed). From John Dehlin and others.

• Open Culture (RSS feed). "The best free cultural & educational media on the web."

• Open Data. (RSS feed). From The World Bank.

• Open Data Commons (RSS feed). From Jordan Hatch.

• Open Data Em Portugal (RSS feed). From Filipe Cruz.

• Open Data Foundation (RSS feed). From the Open Data Foundation.

• Open Data Forum Blog (No RSS feed). In Dutch.

• Open Data Institute of North Carolina Blog. From the Open Data Institute of North Carolina.

• Open Data Now. From Joel Gurin

• The Open Dinosaur Project (RSS feed). From Andy Farke, Matt Wedel, and Mike Taylor.

• Open Education News (RSS feed). From David Wiley and others.

• Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (RSS feed). Led by the Open University in Scotland.

• Open Electronic Publishing (RSS feed). From the OpenEdition platform, developed by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo, France).

• Open Everything[* (RSS feed). "Open-Data, Open-Access & Open-Design". In German.

• Open Exeter(RSS feed). "Human Factors in Research Data Management".

• Open Glam (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)(RSS feed). From The Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Open Government Blog (RSS feed). From the White House of the Obama administration.

• Open Humanities. From the Working Group on Humanities at the Open Knowledge Foundation. (No RSS feed?)

• Open Knowledge Community Stories (RSS feed). From Open Knowledge.

• Open Knowledge Ethiopia (RSS feed). From Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog (RSS feed). From Rufus Pollock and others.

• Open Librarian(RSS feed). From Gerry McKiernan.

• The Open Library Blog (RSS feed). From The Open Library.

• Open Mathbook (RSS feed). From Albert Schueller.

• Open Matters(RSS feed). From MIT.

• Open Movements(RSS feed). From Stefan Baack. In German.

• Open Personalized Health Informatics (RSS feed). "Open Access + Open Code + Open Data = Better Family Health."

• Open Reading Frame (RSS feed). From Bill Hooker.
  • Open Access/Open Science category

• Open Reflections (RSS feed). From Janneke Adema.

• Open Repository Blog (RSS feed). From Graham Triggs.

• Open Research Online (RSS feed). From Colin Smith and Sheila Chudasama at the (UK) Open University.

• Open Scholar C.I.C.. From a group of scholars, editors, and librarians working to improve scholarly evaluation and communication.

• Open Scholarship(RSS feed) "Promoting open knowledge and working practices within the University of Edinburgh". From The University of Edinburgh.

• Open Science dot com(RSS feed). A guide to Open Access publishing and Open Science. The blog is owned by De Gruyter Open. Most of blog posts by Witold Kieńć.

• Open Science Collaboration Blog. An open collaboration supported by the Center for Open Science.

• Open Science Kentucky (RSS feed).

• Open Scotland: Promoting the Development and Adoption of Open Education Polices and Practices in Scotland. Started after the Open Scotland Summit.

• Open Scriptures (RSS feed). The blog for the project of the same name.

• Open Source Open History (RSS feed). From William G. Thomas.

• Open Source Paleontologist (RSS feed). From Andy.

• Open source customization [1]. From Open source customization.

• Open Students (RSS feed). "Student news from the OA movement." From the Right to Research Coalition.

• Open Students (RSS feed). From Gavin Baker. (No longer updated.)

• Open Thinking (RSS feed). "Rants & resources from an open educator." From Alex Couros.

• Opening Science (RSS feed). From The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).

• Opening Scientific Communication (RSS feed). From the Euroscience Working Group on Open Access.

• Open World (RSS feed). From Lorna M. Campbell.

• OptimalScholarship (RSS feed). From Alma Swan.

• Optimising resources to develop a strategic approach to Open Access (RSS feed). From Nick Woolley, David Young, and Ellen Cole at Northumbria University.

• The Orb From Open University Library Services.

• Orwik: The Open Science Platform (RSS feed). From Barak Shahen.

• Otwarta nauka (RSS feed). [Open Learning] In Polish.

• Outernet Blog (RSS feed). From Thane Richard.

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• The Parachute (RSS feed). From Jan Velterop.

• PhysMath Central Blog (RSS feed). From Chris Leonard.

• PLoS Blog (RSS feed) From the Public Library of Science.

• Project Gutenberg News (RSS feed).

• Publications Router No RSS Feed? From EDINA.

• PubChem Blog (RSS feed). From PubChem.

• Public Domain Review (No RSS feed). From the Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Public Knowledge Project (RSS feed)

• Publish Open Access (RSS feed). From iMedPub.

• Publishing Archaeology Blog (RSS feed). From Michael E. Smith.

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• RepositoryMan (RSS feed). From Les Carr.

• Repository News (RSS feed). From the repository team at Leeds Beckett University.

• Research Communications Strategy (RSS feed). From the JISC-funded RSC project.

• Return on Academic Research (RSS feed). From Association ROARS. In Italian.

• Repositories Support Project blog (RSS feed). From the UK Repositories Support Project.

• RSP Blog Directory. From The JISC-funded Repositories Support Project.

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• SAS Open Journals (RSS feed). SAS = School of Advanced Study, University of London. From Peter Webster.

• Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week (SV-POW!) (RSS feed). Although this blog started out as pure palaeontology, it's now a 50-50 blend of sauropods and open-access advocacy.

• Scholarly Communication and Open Science (RSS Feed) From Yimei Zhu.

• Scholarly Communications @ Duke (RSS feed). From Kevin Smith.

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (RSS feed). From Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

• Scholarly Open Access (RSS feed). "Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing." From Jeffrey Beall.

• Scholar Blog (RSS feed). From the KUBIS Center for Scholarly Communication at the University of Copenhagen. In Danish.

• Science Commons (RSS feed)

• Scientific Data Sharing Project. No RSS feed? From the Data Sharing Project, launched by Michael Weiner.

• Scinoptica (RSS feed). From Ulrich Herb. "Science consulting, open access, scientific publishing, open knowledge & open science." Partially in German language.

• A Scientist and the Web (RSS feed). From Peter Murray-Rust.

• Share Anthropology (RSS feed). "Sharing and disseminating open access anthropology." From Kerim Friedman.

• SHERPA RoMEO Blog (RSS feed). From SHERPA RoMEO.

• SHERPA Services Blog(RSS feed). "Opening Access to research". From JISC, The Joint Information Systems Committee.

• Sociology of Science and Open Access. From Luis-Reyes Galindo.

• SONEX (Scholarly Output Notification and Exchange) blog (RSS feed). From the JISC-funded SONEX project.

• SPARC blog (RSS feed). From SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).

• Sphere (RSS feed). From Eloy Rodrigues and others. In Portuguese.

• Spreading Science (RSS feed). From Richard Gayle and others.
  • Only the posts about open access.

• SSRN blog (RSS feed).

• Students for Free Culture (RSS feed)

• Students for Free Culture - Chapter News (RSS feed)

• Subbiah Arunachalam: Open Access Advocate (RSS feed). From Subbiah Arunachalam.

• Sustaining the Knowledge Commons. From Heather Morrison.

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• The One Repo blog (RSS Feed) From Mike Taylor and Index Data.

• The Open Data Research Portal (RSS feed). From Fraunhofer Fokus. In Dutch and English.

• Trinity's Open Access News. (RSS feed).

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• UCR publicaa (RSS fedd). From the Latindex Project Representatives at the University of Costa Rica. In Spanish.

• UJDigispace (RSS feed). "Institutional repository and scholarly communication." (UJ = University of Johannesburg.) From Matizi.

• UK Council of Research Repositories (RSS feed). From Jenny Delasalle, Mary Robinson, and the committee of the UKCoRR.

• UK PubMed Central Blog (RSS feed). From UK PubMed Central.

• Universo Abierto (RSS feed). From Biblioteca de la Facultad de Traducción y Documentación de la Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). In Spanish.

• Unlocking Research (RSS feed). From University of Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communication.

• Useful Chemistry (RSS feed). From Jean-Claude Bradley and others.

• Utah Open Textbook Project. "Determining the Cost Effectiveness and Educational Effectiveness of Open Textbooks." From Brigham Young University.

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• The Value of Openness "The PatientsLikeMe Blog." (RSS feed).

• VIKAS PSOAR (RSS feed). Pharmaceutical Sciences Open Access Resources: Vikas PSOAR and Vikas PGIAR. From Vikas Anand Saharan, Mahesh Kataria, and Vipin Kukkar.

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• Welsh Repository Network (RSS feed).

• Who Needs Access? You Need Access! (RSS feed). From the @ccessworking group.

• Wide Open (RSS feed). From John Hilton III.

• Wiley Open Access Blog (RSS feed). From Wiley Open Access.

• Wissenschaftsurheberrecht (RSS feed). From Eric Steinhauer. In German.

• WissPub.net (RSS feed). From Heinz Pampel, Cornelius Puschmann, Nils Windisch, and Robert Forkel. In German.

• World of Chemistry for All - Free Chemistry Online Resources (RSS feed). Anon.

• WoW! Wouter on the Web (RSS feed). From Wouter Gerritsma.