Discussion forums

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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• Acces Deschis România. Moderated by Kosson. In Romanian.

• 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

• 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.

• Discuss Info Page. Run by FreeCulture.

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

• DPLA-Discussion and DPLA Forums. From the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) project.

E

• 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.

F

• 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.

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.

• Guerilla Open Access.

I

• 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."

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.
• Nordic Open Access Publishing Project (NOAP). In Swedish and English.
• 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 and Information for Development. Unmoderated?

• Open Access Digital Libraries. Yahoo Group. Moderated.

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

• Open_Access_Journals. A moderated Yahoo group.

• 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.

• Open Case Law. Google group. Unmoderated?

• 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.

• 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-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.
  • 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-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-philosophy - a list for those interested in open philosophy texts
  • open-science - general discussion list for open science.
  • open-science-ox - a list for open science in Oxford
  • 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
  • pd-calculators - for discussion of public domain calculators project

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

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

• 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 <[email protected]> with the message 'Subscribe OS-Repositorios Name Surname' in the body of the message.

• 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

• PLoS Community Boards from the Public Library of Science.

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

R

• REPOMAN-L. A list for repository managers.
• /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.

• 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.

• Stockholm Open Science. Google group. Unmoderated.

V

• Verbesserung des Zugangs zu wissenschaftlichen Informationen. In German.

W

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

• WSIS OA Knowledge Community. From UNESCO.