Social media sites about OA

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This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

This is list of social-media sites focusing on open access. It generally omits sites for individuals, even if most of the posts or messages are about open access.

When possible, please indicate when a given site was launched and who manages or moderates it. If a site's primary language is not English, then please indicate what it is.

Alphabetical by category, and alphabetical within each category.

Related lists in OAD: (1) Discontinued social media sites about OA, (2) Blogs about OA and (3) Discussion forums.

Facebook

Access to Research Now! A Facebook group from the student-run Right to Research Coalition.

Beall's List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers. Facebook group.

BioMed Central. Facebook group.

Communia. Facebook group.

Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). Facebook group.

Creative Commons. Facebook group.

EIFL. Facebook group.

De Gruyter Open. Facebook group.

My Open Archive. Facebook group.

Open Access India. Facebook group.

F1000Research. Facebook group.

Science Open. Facebook group.

eLife. Facebook group.

Frontiers. Facebook group.

PeerJ. Facebook group.

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Facebook group, created by Caroline Sutton.

Open Data. A Facebook group. In English and Japanese.

Open Knowledge Foundation Network. Facebook group.

Open Science. Facebook group.

PLoS. Facebook group.

Right to Research Coalition. Facebook group.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Facebook group.

Google+

Academic Publishing. Google+ community.

Altmetrics. Google+ community.

Berlin 10 Open Access Conference. Google+ page.

BioMed Central (BMC). Google+ page.

Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. Google+ page.

Creative Commons (CC). Google+ page.

Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL). Google+ page.

Free Law. Google+ community.

ImpactStory. Google+ page.

InTech Open Access Publisher. Google+ page.

Libertas Academica. Google+ page.

Knowledge Unlatched. Google+ page.

Mendeley. Google+ community.

MDPI - Open Access Publishing. Google+ page.

Omega Alpha Open Access. Google+ page.

Open Access. Google+ community.

Open Access Foundation. Google+ page.

Open Access India. Google+ page.

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP). A Google+ page launched November 11, 2011, by Peter Suber.

Open Access Yarn. Google+ page.

Open Government. Google+ community.

Open Knowledge. Google+ page.

Open Knowledge United States. Google+ page.

Open Science. Google+ community.

Open Science Federation. Google+ page.

Open Science Sweden. Google+ community.

Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard University. Google+ page.

OSTI: Office of Scientific & Technical Information. Google+ page.

PubChase. Google+ page.

Public Library of Science (PLoS). Google+ page.

ScholRev Page. Google+ page.

ScienceOnline. Google+ community.

UC Davis ICIS. Google+ page.

LinkedIn

Archives*Open Network. A LinkedIn group launched December 24, 2008, by David Kemper.

BioMed Central (BMC). A LinkedIn group launched September 19, 2008, by Bryan Vickery.
- Authors and Editors. A LinkedIn group launched February 26, 2010, by BMC.
- Libraries, Research Funders and Open Access. A LinkedIn group launched April 29, 2010, by BMC.
- Technology for Publishing. A LinkedIn group launched March 4, 2010, by BMC.

Conservation Commons. A LinkedIn group launched July 31, 2009, by Asghar Fazel.

Digitale Bibliotheek. A LinkedIn group launched March 14, 2009, by Karolien Selhorst.

HealthForge - the Open Access Health Informatics Community. A LinkedIn group launched January 29, 2010, by John Jones.

ICAR Scientists Forum for Open Access. A LinkedIn group launched January 8, 2009, by Sridhar Gutam. "ICAR" stands for Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

iCommons. A LinkedIn group launched April 18, 2008, by Diane Cabell.

Information Systems and Organizations Research (ISOR). A LinkedIn group launched November 13, 2009, by Jesus Marcelo Ramirez Arias. The discussion forum for an OA journal.

NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. A LinkedIn group launched June 12, 2009, by Edward Fox.

Open Access. A LinkedIn group launched November 1, 2010 by Abby K.

Open Access India. A LinkedIn group launched February 29, 2012 by Sridhar Gutam.

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). A LinkedIn group launched October 7, 2009, by Caroline Sutton. Converted from private to public August 2011.

Open Knowledge Foundation. A LinkedIn group launched August 4, 2008, by Jonathan Gray.

The Open Group. A LinkedIn group launched October 28, 2008, by Carolina Grimm.

Open Science Supporters. A LinkedIn group launched January 2, 2010, by Jonathan Eisen.

Readers, Authors, Editors, and Peer-Reviewers of JMIR. A LinkedIn group launched January 16, 2008, by Gunther Eysenbach. "JMIR" stands for Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. A LinkedIn group launched November 21, 2011, by Jennifer McLennan.

SPARC Europe. A LinkedIn group launched August 12, 2010 by Lars B.

Sciyo.com. A LinkedIn group launched May 6, 2010, by Drazen Prastalo.

SPARC Europe. A LinkedIn group launched August 12, 2010, by Lars B.

Surgical Neurology International. A LinkedIn group launched June 1, 2010, by Pieter Kubben. The discussion forum for an OA journal.

VOA3R . A LinkedIn group launched June 11, 2010, by Alberto Abián Belmonte. "VOA3R" stands for Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository.