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Open Access Directory

The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA. To see what we have, browse the table of contents below, browse the table of categories, or use the search box in the left sidebar. To help the cause, just register and start editing. If you have any questions, see our help section or drop us a line.

OAD is a wiki and we count on our users to keep these lists accurate, comprehensive, and up to date. Our goal is for the OA community itself to maintain the lists with little intervention from the editors or editorial board. We welcome your contributions to the lists, ideas for new lists, and comments to help us improve OAD. Please contact us or use the discussion tabs on individual pages. OAD is hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.

Open Access Week Was a Great Success! Thanks to SPARC and the co-organizers (Of which the OAD is a proud to be part of this process.) and our partners. New to OA? Please explore and welcome. Want to help the cause? Help update the Author addenda or the Publisher Policy Lists for NIH Authors. Or add content to the Lists Under Development. We could always use another set of hands at the OAD community!"

Table of Contents

• Acronyms
• Audio about OA
• Author addenda
• Bibliography of open access
• Blogs about OA
• Calls for papers
• Calls for proposals
• Data repositories
• Declarations in support of OA
• Disciplinary repositories
• Discussion forums
• Educational materials about OA
• Early OA journals
• Events
• Events celebrating Open Access Day (October 14, 2008)
• Events celebrating Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009)
• FAQs about OA
• Free and open-source journal management software
• Free and open-source repository software
• Guides for OA journal publishers
• Implementation resources for the NIH policy
• Institutions that support open access
• Jobs in open access
• Journal declarations of independence
• Journals that converted from TA to OA
• Lists maintained by others
• OA by the numbers
• OA journal business models
• OA journal funds
• OA speakers bureau
• OA tracking project
• Proposed lists. Add your suggestions here. These proposals may soon blossom into active lists.
• Periodicals that frequently publish articles about open access
• Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors
• Research in progress
• Research questions
• Services to support repository managers
• Statements by learned societies and professional associations
• Timeline
• Video about OA
• Volunteer opportunities
• Wikis about OA

Lists under development. These lists have been accepted by the editors for inclusion and are now undergoing final refinements before moving to the table of contents.

• Advocacy organizations for OA
• Courses about OA
• Journals that converted from OA to TA
• Open educational resources
• University actions

For an overview, see lists of all OAD articles or all OAD categories.