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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) Discontinued discussion forums, (2) Blogs about OA, and (3) Social media sites about OA.

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

Accès ouvert. Moderated by Christine Berthaud, Jean-Christophe Peyssard, Jean-François Lutz, Marin Dacos, Pierre Mounier. In french.

Altmetrics. A Google Group moderated by Jason Priem.

B

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

C

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.

D

driver restore. 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.

Discuss Info Page. Run by FreeCulture.

Directory of Open Access Books. From Coventry University, UK.

DPLA-Discussion. From the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

DPLA Open Ebooks. Mailing list moderated by Kenny Whitebloom, Rachel Frick, and Michelle Bickert.

E

Economics of Open Access. Moderated by Alastair Dryburgh.

eIFL - Open Access program announcement and discussion list. Moderated by Iryna Kuchma, from eIFL.

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

F

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

FoRC. A Google Group from Force11.

G

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.

I

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."

J

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

L

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

M

Maastricht-Science. Moderated by the Open Knowledge Foundation.

MERLOT-Africa. On OA and OERs in Africa.

N

National Information Standards Organization: oa-indicators-info Mailing List Home.
Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) Community Forums
NZ AU Open Research. Google group in connection to New Zealand-Australia Open Research (NZAU Open Research). Posting limited to group moderators.

O

OAC-General. Google Group.

OAI-Announce list and 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.

OpenAccess-be Discussion List. Moderated by François Renaville, Gwen Franck, and Inge Van Nieuwerburgh in connection to Open Access Belgium.

Open Access Digital Libraries. Yahoo Group. Moderated.

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

OpenAccess Mailing List - Wikimedia. Moderated by Andrea Zanni, Lane Rasberry, and Pete Forsyth.

Open Access Publishing - The Research Cooperative. Established by Peter J. Matthews. Moderated.

International Open Access Week Groups. Network of 100+ International Open Access Week sub-groups spanning a wide range of themes with varying levels of group activity.

open-contentmining. Moderated by Jenny Molloy, Katelyn Rogers, and Peter Murray-Rust.

opencon-forum. Google group in connection to OpenCon conference. Unmoderated.

Open Data Commons Discuss List. Connected to Open Knowledge Foundation project Open Data Commons, moderated by Jordan S. Hatcher.

Open Data Ireland. Google Group.

WSIS Knowledge Communities: Open Educational Resources (OER). Moderated by Abel Caine and Lydia Liu.

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-cambridge - local list for Cambridge, UK
- ok-oxford - local list for Oxford, UK
- okfn-discuss - for discussion of open knowledge related activities, projects, etc.
- okfn-fr - local list for France. In French.
- open-access - "A list to discuss issues surrounding true open access"
- open-archaeology - a list for those interested in open data in archaeology
- open-glam - a list for people interested in open data and open content in the cultural heritage sector.
- open-humanities - "A list for people interested in the use of open source tools and open access in humanities teaching and research", moderated by Iain Emsley, James Harriman-Smith, and Sam Leon.
- open-legislation - a list for people interested in tracking legislation in a transparent fashion.
- open-science - general discussion list for open science.
- open-science-ox - a list for open science in Oxford
- ok-scotland - open knowledge and data in Scotland.
- open-sustainability - a list for open sustainability
- open-transport - A list for those interested in open data about transport
- openbiblio-dev - open bibliographic tools and data developer list
- opendesign - the open design and hardware discussion list

Open Policy Network. Google group associated with the Open Policy Network. Unmoderated.

Open-Repositories. Google group. From Open Repositories Conference.

OS-Repositorios. Listserv (in Spanish) focused on open access repositories administered by Reme Melero. Archive available.
Open-science-nl. Moderated by Graham Steel and Egon Willighagen.

Open Science Framework. Google Group. From Open Science Framework.

Open Up: Opening Up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana. From EUROPEANA.

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 <[email protected]> with the message 'subscribe ozeprints' in the body of the message.

P

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

R

/r/BestOfPublicDomain. Subreddit. Moderated by whatswiththesefrogs et al.
/r/creativecommons. Subreddit. Moderated by nuotone, elliotharmon, mindspillage, and robmyers.
/r/csbooks. Subreddit. Moderated by roger_. "...computer science textbooks that have been released online for free by their authors/publishers."
/r/econbooks. Subreddit. Moderated by roger_. "...economics textbooks that have been released online for free by their authors/publishers."
/r/eebooks. Subreddit. Moderated by roger_, DownloadableCheese, and Basuhball. "...electrical/computer engineering textbooks that have been released online for free by their authors/publishers...".
/r/Foamed. Subreddit. Moderated by Henipah et al.
/r/FOANed. Subreddit. Moderated by granolapher.
/r/JScholarPublishers. Subreddit. Moderated by JScholarJournals.
/r/mathbooks. Subreddit. Moderated by roger_. "...mathematics textbooks that have been released online for free by their authors/publishers."
/r/mooc. Subreddit. Moderated by idontlikebacon.
/r/moocs. Subreddit. Moderated by onebit.
/r/OpenAccess. Subreddit. Moderated by cambrian44.
/r/openaccesspapers. Subreddit. Moderated by derjames.
/r/openanthro. Subreddit. Moderated by kerimfriedman.
/r/openculture. Subreddit. Moderated by SolidLiquid2.
/r/opendata. Subreddit. Moderated by mcantelon and RA_Fisher.
/r/opendata_pt. Subreddit (in Portuguese). Moderated by keynesiano, hgg, psenough, and luluganeta.
/r/Open_Science. Subreddit. Moderated by ScienceOpen, protohedgehog, colditzjb, and jmdugan.
/r/OpenScience. Subreddit. Moderated by jbphysreddit, thecandle, jmdugan, and MrGunn.
/r/physicsbooks. Subreddit. Moderated by roger_. "...physics textbooks that have been released online for free by their authors/publishers."
/r/Public_Domain. Subreddit. Moderated by pddepot.
/r/publicdomain. Subreddit. Moderated by epicRelic et al.
/r/reviewpapers. Subreddit. Moderated by gfursin.
/r/utsepress. Subreddit. Moderated by utsepress.

S

Scholastica: The Conversation. From Scholastica.

ScholComm from the Association of College and Research Libraries. On scholarly communication.

SciTech -- Tech Implementations for Open Science. Moderated by Victoria Stodden and Sheila Miguez.

SPARC Author Rights Discussion Forum from SPARC. Google group. Previously hosted as moderated email list, archive available to subscribers

SPARC Open Access Forum (SOAF) from SPARC. Google group. On OA developments broadly construed. Previously (through end of July 2011) hosted as email list, archive available.

SPARC Open Data. From SPARC. Google group. Previously hosted as email list, archive available.

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

SSP-L from the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Moderated by Linda Pocsik. Archive available.

Stockholm Open Science. Google group. Unmoderated.

W

WSIS OA Knowledge Community. From UNESCO.

Retrieved from "http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/index.php?title=Discussion_forums&oldid=24265"

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Advocacy for OA

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 ==D==
-* [http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Digital Humanities Questions & Answers].  From the [http://www.ach.org/ Association For Computers And The Humanities].
+* [http://driverrestore.com/ driver restore].  From the [http://www.ach.org/ Association For Computers And The Humanities].
 ** Also see the [http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/tags/open-access discussion threads tagged with "open access"].
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 * [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/subscribe/dpla-discussion DPLA-Discussion]. From the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpla Digital Public Library of America] (DPLA).
+* [https://lists.dp.la/listinfo/openebooksdiscussion DPLA Open Ebooks]. Mailing list moderated by Kenny Whitebloom, Rachel Frick, and Michelle Bickert.
 ==E==
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 * [http://www.niso.org/lists/oa-indicators-info National Information Standards Organization: oa-indicators-info Mailing List Home].
+* [http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2 Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) Community Forums]
 * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nz-au-open-research NZ AU Open Research]. Google group in connection to [https://sites.google.com/site/nzauopenresearch/ New Zealand-Australia Open Research (NZAU Open Research)]. Posting limited to group moderators.
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 *[http://researchcooperative.org/group/openaccess Open Access Publishing - The Research Cooperative]. Established by Peter J. Matthews. Moderated.
+*[http://www.openaccessweek.org/groups International Open Access Week Groups]. Network of 100+ International Open Access Week sub-groups spanning a wide range of themes with varying levels of group activity.
 *[https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-contentmining open-contentmining]. Moderated by Jenny Molloy, Katelyn Rogers, and Peter Murray-Rust.
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 ** [https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ok-berlin ok-berlin] -  local list for Berlin, DE
 **[https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ok-cambridge/ ok-cambridge] - local list for Cambridge, UK
-** [http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ok-ox-discuss ok-ox-discuss] - local list for Oxford, UK
+** [https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ok-oxford ok-oxford] - local list for Oxford, UK
-** [http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss okfn-discuss] - for discussion of [http://opendefinition.org open knowledge] related activities, projects, etc.
+** [https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss okfn-discuss] - for discussion of [http://opendefinition.org open knowledge] related activities, projects, etc.
 ** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-fr/ okfn-fr] - local list for France. In French.
 ** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access/ open-access] - "A list to discuss issues surrounding true open access"
 ** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-archaeology open-archaeology] - a list for those interested in open data in archaeology
-** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-companies open-companies] - A list for those interested in open data about companies
+** [https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-glam open-glam] - a list for people interested in open data and open content in the cultural heritage sector.
-** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-heritage open-heritage] - a list for people interested in open data and open content in the cultural heritage sector.
+**[https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-humanities open-humanities] - "A list for people interested in the use of open source tools and open access in humanities teaching and research", moderated by Iain Emsley, James Harriman-Smith, and Sam Leon.
 ** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-legislation open-legislation] - a list for people interested in tracking legislation in a transparent fashion.
-** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-literature open-literature] - discussion of the Open Shakespeare project and "open literature" in general
+** [https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science open-science] - general discussion list for open science.
-** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-philosophy/ open-philosophy] - a list for those interested in open philosophy texts
-** [http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science open-science] - general discussion list for open science.
 ** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science-ox/ open-science-ox] -  a list for open science in Oxford
+**[https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ok-scotland ok-scotland] - open knowledge and data in Scotland.
 ** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-sustainability/ open-sustainability] - a list for open sustainability
 ** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-transport/ open-transport] - A list for those interested in open data about transport
 ** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openbiblio-dev/ openbiblio-dev] - open bibliographic tools and data developer list
 ** [http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/opendesign/ opendesign] - the open design and hardware discussion list
-** [http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-calculators pd-calculators] - for discussion of [http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainCalculators public domain calculators] project
 * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-policy-network Open Policy Network]. Google group associated with the [https://openpolicynetwork.org/ Open Policy Network]. Unmoderated.
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 * [https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/open-repositories/ Open-Repositories]. Google group. From [http://or2013.net Open Repositories Conference].
-* [http://www.rediris.es/list/info/os-repositorios.es.html 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.
+* [https://listserv.rediris.es/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=OS-REPOSITORIOS&A=1 OS-Repositorios]. Listserv (in Spanish) focused on open access repositories administered by Reme Melero. [https://listserv.rediris.es/cgi-bin/wa?A0=OS-REPOSITORIOS Archive available].
 *[https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science-nl Open-science-nl]. Moderated by Graham Steel and Egon Willighagen.
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-* [http://www.plos.org/community/ PLoS Community Boards] from the [http://www.plos.org/index.php Public Library of Science].
 * [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Peer to Peer Foundation] Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices
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-* [http://www.lsoft.com/SCRIPTS/WL.EXE?SL1=REPOMAN-L&H=LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU REPOMAN-L]. A list for repository managers.
 *[https://www.reddit.com/r/BestOfPublicDomain/ /r/BestOfPublicDomain]. Subreddit. Moderated by [https://www.reddit.com/user/whatswiththesefrogs/ whatswiththesefrogs] [https://www.reddit.com/r/BestOfPublicDomain/about/moderators et al].
 *[https://www.reddit.com/r/creativecommons/ /r/creativecommons]. Subreddit. Moderated by [https://www.reddit.com/user/nuotone/ nuotone], [https://www.reddit.com/user/elliotharmon/ elliotharmon], [https://www.reddit.com/user/mindspillage/ mindspillage], and [https://www.reddit.com/user/robmyers/ robmyers].
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 *[http://lists.hackingscience.org/listinfo.cgi/scitech-hackingscience.org SciTech -- Tech Implementations for Open Science]. Moderated by Victoria Stodden and Sheila Miguez.
-* [http://mail.citizendium.org/mailman/listinfo/sharedknowing Shared Knowledge].  From [http://citizendium.org/ Citizendium] but the discussion is not limited to Citizendium.
+* [https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!forum/sparc-arforum SPARC Author Rights Discussion Forum] from [http://sparcopen.org/ SPARC]. Google group. Previously hosted as moderated email list, [https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-ARForum/List.html archive available to subscribers]
-* [http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0205.html SPARC Author Rights Forum].  From [http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC].  Moderated by Kevin Smith.
-* [https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-IR/List.html SPARC Institutional Repositories].  From [http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC].
-* [http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan/index.html#forum SPARC Open Access Forum] (SOAF) from [http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC]. On OA developments broadly construed. Moderated by Stacie Lemick.
+* [https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!forum/sparc-oaforum SPARC Open Access Forum] (SOAF) from [http://sparcopen.org/ SPARC]. Google group. On OA developments broadly construed. Previously (through end of July 2011) hosted as email list, [https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html archive available].
-* [http://www.arl.org/sparc/opendata SPARC Open Data].  From [http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC]. Moderated by Peter Murray-Rust.
+* [https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!forum/sparc-opendata SPARC Open Data].  From [http://sparcopen.org/ SPARC]. Google group. Previously hosted as email list, [https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!forum/sparc-opendata archive available].
-* [http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/emailsignup.shtml SPARC Subject Repositories Forum].  From [http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC].  Moderated by Jessica Adamick, Julie Kelly, and Rebecca Reznik-Zellen.
+* [http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/emailsignup.shtml SPARC Subject Repositories Forum].  From [http://sparcopen.org/ SPARC].  Moderated by Jessica Adamick, Julie Kelly, and Rebecca Reznik-Zellen.
-* [http://www.sspnet.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3625 SSP-L] from the [http://www.sspnet.org/ Society for Scholarly Publishing].
+* [http://www.sspnet.org/ssp-l-guidelines-and-best-practices/ SSP-L] from the [http://www.sspnet.org/ Society for Scholarly Publishing]. Moderated by Linda Pocsik. [http://lists.resourcenter.net/read/?forum=ssp-l Archive available].
 * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/stkhmos Stockholm Open Science]. Google group. Unmoderated.
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-* [https://www.xing.com/net/wissenschaftsurheberrecht Verbesserung des Zugangs zu wissenschaftlichen Informationen].  In German.
 ==W==
-* [http://www.unesco.org/cgi-bin/webworld/portalsforum/gforum.cgi?forum=12 WSIS Follow-up: C3 - Access to Information and Knowledge].  From UNESCO.
 * [http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/open-access-community/ WSIS OA Knowledge Community].  From UNESCO.

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