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A Tribute: January 31st was the public memorial service for Ann J. Wolpert who directed the MIT Libraries from 1996-2013. Ann was a leader in bringing open access to where it is today with too many accomplishments to list here, but highlights include leading the MIT Libraries collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to develop DSpace. In her essay, "For the Sake of Inquiry and Knowledge-Inevitability of Open Access", published in the February 2013 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine she wrote, "There is no doubt that public interests vested in funding agencies, universities, libraries, and authors together with the power and reach of the Internet, have created a compelling and necessary momentum for open access. It won't be easy, and it won't be inexpensive, but it is only a matter of time." Thank you Ann, you will be missed. Robin Peek, Editor, the 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, use them for reference, and update them. 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. Please [mailto:OAD.contact@gmail.com contact] us or use the discussion tabs on individual pages. The OAD is hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.

Table of Contents


 * Acronyms
 * Advocacy organizations for OA
 * Audio about OA
 * Author addenda
 * Blogs about OA
 * Courses about OA
 * Data repositories
 * Declarations in support of OA
 * Disciplinary repositories
 * Discussion forums
 * Educational materials about OA
 * Early OA journals
 * Events
 * Events celebrating Open Access Week
 * 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
 * Journal declarations of independence
 * Journals that converted from OA to TA
 * Journals that converted from TA to OA
 * Lists maintained by others
 * OA book business models
 * OA by the numbers
 * OA journal business models
 * OA journal funds
 * OA journal launch services
 * 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
 * Publishers of OA books
 * Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors
 * Research in progress
 * Research questions
 * Retired lists
 * Services to support repository managers
 * Social media sites about OA
 * Statements by learned societies and professional associations
 * Timeline
 * Unanimous faculty votes
 * 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.


 * Bibliography of open access
 * Careers in OA
 * Historical embargo periods
 * Journal open-data policies
 * New to Open Access?
 * OA in different disciplines
 * Open data policies
 * OERs
 * Research wikis
 * Scholarships, Fellowship, and Internships in OA
 * University actions

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