Blogs about OA
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This list is part of the Open Access Directory.
- 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- If a blog is no longer updated, move it from the active blog list to the discontinued blog list.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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- access2research (RSS feed). From Michael Carroll, Heather Joseph, Mike Rossner, and John Wilbanks and others.
- Acceso Abierto (RSS feed). From Carolina De Volder. In Spanish.
- 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. 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
- Australian Open Access Support Group "Supporting open access to Australian research".
- Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (RSS feed). From the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories.
- Author Rights Model License Language (RSS feed for news/updates to the blog) (RSS feed for comments about the language)
- AWOL - The Ancient World Online (RSS feed). In English. From Charles Jones.
B
- Beall's List of Predatory Open Access Journal Publishers . From Bill Cohen. In English.
- Be Openly Accessible or Be Obscure (RSS feed). From Jim Till.
- BioSharing (RSS feed). From Dawn Field.
- Blog do Kuramoto. From Hélio Kuramoto. In Portuguese
- Blog o Open Access (RSS feed). From Roman Bogacewicz. In Polish.
- Blog ONE (RSS feed). From Niyaz Ahmed.
- Blogue du GTA(RSS feed). In French.
- Brainstorm in Progress. From Geoff Cain.
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- Chemistry Central Blog (RSS feed). From Gino D'Oca.
- City Open Access (RSS feed). From Neil Stewart at City University.
- ©ollectanea (RSS feed) From Peggy Hoon.
- College Open Textbooks Blog (RSS feed). From Sharyn Fitzpatrick and Rod Kirk.
- Conocimiento Abierto. From Emanuel Malfatti. In Spanish.
- Copyright on Campus (RSS feed). From Christine Ross
- communs / commons / comuns / comunes. The blog associated with the Public Domain Manifesto. In French.
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- [http://sites.tdl.org/fuse/ 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)
- Gulliver Turtle's Blog. From Gulliver, BioMed Central's open access turtle.
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- 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".
- 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.
- IOSA.it Open Archaeology (RSS feed). From Stefano Costa.
- 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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- 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.
- Legal Sources Subject to Open (RSS feed). From Ned Swanner, Olugbenga Ademodi, and Robb Farmer.
- Legal Transformation & Open Access (RSS feed). From Joshua Kubicki.
- Lessig blog (RSS feed). From Lawrence Lessig.
- Libertas Academica (RSS feed). "Open access journals, science, and the publishing business." From Libertas Academica, the OA journal publisher.
- Libre accès à l'information scientifique et technique (RSS feed). From the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST). In French.
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- McBlawg 3.0 (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.
- Modus Operandi for Repository Deposits (RSS feed). From the JISC-Funded DepositMO project.
- Mohylianska bibliotekarka . 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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- OA Bibliography (RSS feed). From Lucia Bertini. In English and Italian.
- OA Librarian (RSS feed). From Heather Morrison and Andrew Waller.
- OA@UCD (RSS feed). From the University College Dublin.
- [http://univstandrews-oaresearch.blogspot.com/ OpenAccess@StAndrews. From St Andrews University Library.
- 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.
- OJS Latin America. "Regional news and information about Open Journal Systems." From Open Journal Systems.
- OJSAN A blog about Open Access publishing and Open Journals System. In Norwegian. Editor and main contributor (so far) Karl Henrik Flyum, University of Oslo. Entries RSS-feed and Comments RSS-feed.
- 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.Michigan blog. From the University of Michigan Open.Michigan project. (No RSS feed?)
- 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.
- OpenRePub Blog (RSS feed). From the OpenRePub project.
- The OpenScience Project (RSS feed). From Dan Gezelter and others, focusing on free and open-source scientific software.
- 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 Comments. From Katarina Lovrecic and InTechWeb.
- Open Access Day (RSS feed). From SPARC, PLoS, and Students for Free Culture.
- Open-Access.dk (RSS feed). From Anders Nielsen Agerbæk Kjøller. In Danish.
- Open Access, Freedom Space (RSS feed). From Zhiming Wang.
- 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". 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 Press (RSS feed). The blog is the OAP home page.
- Open Access Publisering (RSS feed). From Karen Marie Øvern. In Norwegian.
- Open Access Publishing Blog. (No RSS feed?)
- Open Access Resources for Engineers (RSS feed). From Kanwal Dhindsa.
- Access at the University of Oregon. "About this Site." From JQ Johnson.
- Open and Shut? (RSS feed). From Richard Poynder.
- Open Archaeology (RSS feed). From IOSA.it. (The blog is the IOSA.it home page.)
- 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 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. From The World Bank.
- Open Data Commons (RSS feed). From Jordan Hatch.
- Open Data Foundation (RSS feed). From the Open Data Foundation.
- The Open Dinosaur Project (RSS feed). From Andy Farke, Matt Wedel, and Mike Taylor.
- Open Education News (RSS feed). From David Wiley and others.
- 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. 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 From the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In Spanish.
- Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog (RSS feed). From Rufus Pollock and others.
- Open Librarian(RSS feed). From Gerry McKiernan.
- 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 Repository Blog (RSS feed). From Graham Triggs.
- Open Research Online (RSS feed). From Colin Smith and Sheila Chudasama at the (UK) Open University.
- Open Scholarship(RSS feed) "Promoting open knowledge and working practices within the University of Edinburgh". From The University of Edinburgh.
- Open Science(RSS feed). "Dedicated to Open Science, Open Access and Open Data". From Kamil Mizera.
- The Open Scientist (RSS feed). From David Rozak.
- 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 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 Text Book (RSS feed). From the Open Knowledge Foundation.
- 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 Universe From the University of Salamanca. In Spanish.
- Opinions On Open (RSS feed). "Open writings on open education, open technology, open governance, and the general state of open affairs." From Ahrash Bissell, Lee-Sean Huang, Alex Kozak, and Jane Park.
- OptimalScholarship (RSS feed). From Alma Swan.
- Orwik: The Open Science Platform (RSS feed). From Barak Shahen.
- Otwarta nauka (RSS feed). [Open Learning] In Polish.
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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.
- Public Domain Review. From the Open Knowledge Foundation.
- Publish Open Access (RSS feed). From iMedPub.
- Publishing Archaeology Blog (RSS feed). From Michael E. Smith.
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- the relog experiment. "Readings in open access, scholarly communication, and digital librarianship." From akosavic. (No RSS feed?)
- The RePEc Blog (RSS feed). From Research Papers in Economics and Christian Zimmermann.
- RepositoryMan (RSS feed). From Les Carr.
- Research Communications Strategy (RSS feed). From the JISC-funded RSC 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.
- Scholarly Communication, Open Access, Open Science (RSS feed). From the University of Texas at Arlington.
- 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 in the open. From Cameron Neylon
- 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." Mostly in German.
- 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 Services Blog(RSS feed). "Opening Access to research". From JISC, The Joint Information Systems Committee.
- Some Rights Reserved. (No RSS feed?) From Isaac Gilman.
- 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. From Eloy Rodrigues and others. In Portuguese.
- Spreading Science (RSS feed). From Richard Gayle and others.
- Only the posts about open access.
- Subbiah Arunachalam: Open Access Advocate (RSS feed). From Subbiah Arunachalam.
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- Terra Incognita (RSS feed). From Ken Udas.
- The Open Data Research Portal. From Fraunhofer Fokus. In Dutch and English.
- Transforming Scholarly Communication (RSS feed). From Adrian Ho. University of Minnesota Libraries.
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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.
- Universo Abierto (RSS feed). From Biblioteca de la Facultad de Traducción y Documentación de la Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). In Spanish.
- 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. Pharmaceutical Sciences Open Access Resources: Vikas PSOAR and Vikas PGIAR. From Vikas Anand Saharan, Mahesh Kataria, and Vipin Kukkar.
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- Wang Ying-wide blog (王应宽的博客) (RSS feed). In Chinese.
- Who Needs Access? You Need Access! (RSS feed). From the @ccessworking group.
- Wide Open (RSS feed). From John Hilton III.
- Wissenschaftsurheberrecht (RSS feed). From Eric Steinhauer. In German.
- WissPub.net (RSS feed). From Heinz Pampel, Cornelius Puschmann, Nils Windisch, and Robert Forkel. In German.
- WoW! Wouter on the Web (RSS feed). From Wouter Gerritsma.
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- Zugang zum Wissen Journal (RSS feed). From Eberhard Hilf. In German.