Social media sites about OA

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


 * This is a 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.


 * Open Access Tunisie


 * Open Access in Arab Countries


 * Open Access Pakistan


 * Open Access to Italian Research


 * Acceso Abierto (Open Access) y Métricas Alternativas (Altmetrics)


 * Open Access Week- Philippines

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.


 * Digital Library. Google+ page.


 * Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Google+ page.


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


 * Free Culture. Google+ community.


 * Free Law. Google+ community.


 * ImpactStory. Google+ page.


 * InTech Open Access Publisher. Google+ page.


 * Libertas Academica. Google+ page.


 * Libre Geoscience. Google+ community.


 * Knowledge Unlatched. Google+ page.


 * Mendeley. Google+ community.


 * MDPI - Open Access Publishing. Google+ page.


 * Omega Alpha Open Access. Google+ page.


 * OA (Open Access). Google+ page.


 * Open Access. Google+ community.


 * Open Access. Google+ community.


 * Open Access. Google+ page.


 * Open Access Button. Google+ page.


 * Open Access Foundation. Google+ page.


 * Open Access im Recht. Google+ page.


 * Open Access India. Google+ community.


 * Open Access India. Google+ page.


 * Open Access Support Group. Google+ community.


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


 * Open Access Yarn. Google+ page.


 * OpenGLAM. Google+ community.


 * Open Government. Google+ community.


 * Open Knowledge. Google+ page.
 * Open Knowledge. Google+ community.


 * Open Knowledge United States. Google+ page.


 * Open Science. Google+ community.


 * Open Science Federation. Google+ page.


 * Open Science Sweden. Google+ community.


 * Open Source & the Museum. Google+ community.


 * Open Source Publishing. 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.


 * REDALYC Sistema de Información Científica. Google+ page.


 * ScholRev Page. Google+ page.


 * SciELO. 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.

Twitter

 * 1science. Twitter feed.


 * Academic Commons. Twitter feed moderated by the Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, launched February 2011.


 * @ccess Initiative. Twitter feed by Tom Olijhoek, launched September 2009.


 * AccesstoScience. Twitter feed launched January 2012.


 * Acesso Livre Brazil. Twitter feed launched December 2009.


 * Akada Network. Twitter feed launched September 2013.


 * Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA). Twitter feed launched June 2009.


 * Altmetric. Twitter feed launched August 2011.


 * ANDS. Twitter feed launched October 2011.


 * AnvilAcademic. Twitter feed launched June 2012.


 * AOASG. Twitter feed by Ginny Barbour, launched May 2012.


 * Authors Alliance. Twitter feed launched January 2014.


 * bepress. Twitter feed launched March 2010.


 * BioMed Central. Twitter feed by Dan Caley and Alanna Orpen, launched May 2009.
 * Open Access Africa. Twitter feed related to BioMed Central-sponsored conference, launched May 2011.


 * BMJ_Open. Twitter feed launched August 2010.


 * bouchout declaration. Twitter feed.


 * Bristol Open Access. Twitter feed from the University of Bristol, launched January 2014.


 * Cambridge OpenAccess. Twitter feed.


 * Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University. Twitter feed.


 * Closed Access J. Twitter feed.


 * Communia EU Network. Twitter feed.


 * Communia Association. Twitter feed by International Communia Association, June 2011.


 * Confederation of Open Access Repositories. (COAR). Twitter feed launched September 2011.


 * Connexions Twitter feed launched May 2009.


 * Creative Commons. Twitter feed launched November 2008.


 * CORE. Twitter feed.


 * Coursera. Twitter feed launched August 2011.


 * De Gruyter Open. Twitter feed by Witold Kieńć, launched April 2011.


 * depositMOre. Twitter feed launched July 2010.


 * Digital Commons Lab (DCL). Twitter feed launched January 2014.


 * Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School. Twitter feed launched October 2013.


 * Digital Scholarship @ Harvard. Twitter feed launched June 2011.


 * DigitalKoans. Twitter feed launched July 2009.


 * DigitalMedia&Science. Twitter feed launched July 2012.


 * DM2E. Twitter feed launched March 2012.


 * DOAB. Twitter feed launched February 2012.


 * DOAJ. Twitter feed by Dominic Mitchell, launched December 2012.


 * DPLA. Twitter feed launched March 2013.


 * Dryad. Twitter feed launched December 2009.


 * DuraSpace Community. Twitter feed launched May 2009.


 * EC Open Data Policy. Twitter feed by EU Open Data Portal, launched February 2010.


 * edX. Twitter feed launched April 2012.


 * EIFL. Twitter feed launched December 2009.


 * elife_sciences. Twitter feed launched May 2013.


 * ESA OpenScience. Twitter feed launched August 2013. An Ecological Society of America section devoted to #openscience.


 * The European Library. Twitter feed launched September 2009.


 * ExploringTheOpens. Twitter feed by Sarah Goodier, launched June 2012.


 * F1000Research. Twitter feed launched July 2009.


 * Fair Use Week. Twitter feed launched February 2014.


 * Fake Elvesier. Twitter feed launched February 2012.


 * FakePLoS. Twitter feed launched February 2012.


 * figshare. Twitter feed launched December 2010.


 * Flat World Education. Twitter feed launched March 2009.


 * Foster Open Science. Twitter feed launched January 2014.


 * FW Open Access. Twitter feed launched January 2012.


 * geocommons. Twitter feed launched August 2008.


 * GigaScience. Twitter feed launched October 2010.


 * Glossa-OA. Twitter feed.


 * Hack Your PhD. Twitter feed launched March 2013.


 * Hague Declaration. Twitter feed.


 * HathiTrust. Twitter feed launched April 2009.


 * HEFCE. Twitter feed launched February 2009.


 * HSS Open Access. Twitter feed by the College of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh, launched May 2013.


 * IDCE. Twitter feed launched August 2010.


 * I Love Open Access. Twitter feed launched March 2013.


 * ImpactStory. Twitter feed launched September 2011.


 * Islandora Project. Twitter feed launched October 2012.


 * Open Access EC. Twitter feed by European Commission Open Access Policy Officers, launched September 2011.


 * Jisc. Twitter feed launched January 2009.


 * JISC Collections. Twitter feed launched September 2009.


 * Journalysis. Twitter feed launched November 2013.


 * Kismet Press. Twitter feed.


 * K | N. Twitter feed by Rebecca Kennison, launched February 2013.


 * Knowledge Unlatched. Twitter feed launched May 2012.


 * LangSci Press. Twitter feed launched April 2013.


 * LIBER Europe. Twitter feed launched September 2010.


 * LIBRE. Twitter feed.


 * Libraccess. Twitter feed moderated by Clement Levallois.


 * LSE Research Online. Twitter feed from The London School of Economics.


 * Massive Open. Twitter feed launched January 2013.


 * mBio. Twitter feed launched July 2009.


 * McDawg. Twitter feed launched January 2008.


 * MedOANet. Twitter feed launched July 2012.


 * Miami U Open Access. Twitter feed by Scholarly Communication Committee at Miami University Libraries, launched February 2011.


 * MIT OpenCourseWare. Twitter feed launched January 2009.


 * My Open Archive. Twitter feed launched March 2009.


 * NCBI_PubMed. Twitter feed launched February 2009.


 * NCIS. Twitter feed from the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, launched November 2009.


 * New Prairie Press. Twitter feed launched June 2012.


 * NewEducationHighway. Twitter feed launched January 2013.


 * OA Cooperative. Twitter feed.


 * OA EU Infrastructure. Twitter feed launched January 2010.


 * OA-Netzwerk. Twitter feed (in German) launched July 2010.


 * oapen-uk. Twitter feed launched September 2011.


 * OARRER. Twitter feed launched January 2013.


 * OCSD Network. Twitter feed.


 * OER Africa. Twitter feed launched August 2009.


 * OER Commons. Twitter feed launched July 2008.


 * OI London. Twitter feed associated with the Open Institute, launched May 2013.


 * OKCon. Twitter feed for the 2013 Open Knowledge Conference, launched May 2011.


 * OKFestival. Twitter feed launched March 2012.


 * Open Knowledge. Twitter feed launched September 2008.


 * Open Knowledge Labs. Twitter feed launched December 2011.


 * OOOCanada Network. Twitter feed.
 * Open Access. Twitter feed.


 * Open Access Africa. Twitter feed launched May 2011.


 * OAAmbassadors. Twitter feed.


 * Open Access Belgium. Twitter feed moderated by Gwen Franck and Dominique Chalono, launched February 2011.


 * Open Access Button. Twitter feed launched July 2013.


 * Open Access Directory. Twitter feed launched April 2011.


 * Open Access Greece. Twitter feed launched April 2013.


 * Open Access in Oz. Twitter feed.


 * Open Acces HSS. Twitter feed moderated by Jonathan Gray, Martin Paul Eve, Samuel Moore, and Sierra Williams.


 * Open Access India. Twitter feed by Anup K Das and Sridhar Gutam, launched October 2012.


 * Open Access Japan. Twitter feed launched June 2009.


 * Open Access Key. Twitter feed launched May 2011.


 * Open Access Network. Twitter feed.


 * Open Access Now. Twitter feed, curated by Andrew Spong, launched January 2010.


 * Open Access Oxford. Twitter feed from Oxford University, launched December 2012.


 * Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Twitter feed by Caroline Sutton, launched October 2009.


 * Open Access Project. Twitter feed launched November 2011.


 * Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN). Twitter feed launched March 2010.


 * Open Access SA. Twitter feed.


 * Open Access Spain. Twitter feed (in Spanish) by Miguel Navas F., launched October 2012.


 * Open Access Sheffield. Twitter feed from the University of Sheffield, launched April 2013.


 * Open Access Tracking Project (OATP). Twitter feed launched August 2009.


 * OPENatVT. Twitter feed by Philip Young at Virginia Tech University Libraries, launched July 2013.


 * Open Access Yarn. Twitter feed by Katarina Lovrecic, launched June 2011.


 * Open Book Alliance. Twitter feed launched August, 2009.


 * Open Book Publishers. Twitter feed launched September 2009.


 * Open Culture. Twitter feed moderated by Dan Colman, launched January 2009.


 * Open Data Institute. Twitter feed launched March 2012.


 * OpenDataMonitor. Twitter feed launched November 2013.


 * Open Data Network. Twitter feed launched September 2009.


 * Open Education Week. Twitter feed launched October 2011.


 * Open GLAM. Twitter feed launched March 2012.


 * Open Humanities. Twitter feed launched July 2009.


 * Open History. Twitter feed by Tim McCormick, launched July 2013.


 * Open Journal Project. Twitter feed launched April 2013.


 * Open Knowledge NP. Twitter feed of Open Knowledge Nepal, launched March 2013.
 * Open Knowledge PT. Twitter feed (in Portuguese) of Open Knowledge Portugal.


 * OpenLibHums. Twitter feed of The Open Library of Humanities, launched January 2013.


 * Open Library. Twitter feed launched January 2009.


 * openmicroscopy. Twitter feed launched July 2008.


 * Open Philosophy. Twitter feed launched December 2011.


 * Open Praxis. Twitter feed launched May 2012.


 * Open Repository. Twitter feed launched May 2009.


 * Open Research Cambridge. Twitter feed launched October 2013.


 * Open Research Exeter. Twitter feed from the University of Exeter Open Access and Data Curation Team, launched January 2012.


 * Open Science. Twitter feed launched July 2009.


 * Open Science Hulk. Twitter feed launched July 2013.


 * Open Science Info. Twitter feed launched January 2009.


 * Open Science News by De Gruyter Open. Twitter feed launched June 2012.


 * Open Science Radio. Twitter feed (in German and English) by Matthias Fromm and Konrad Förstner, launched January 2013.


 * Open Science Reviewed. Twitter feed launched July 2013.


 * Open Source Science. Twitter feed launched March 2010.


 * Open.Michigan. Twitter feed from the University of Michigan, launched April 2008.


 * OpenAccessHulk. Twitter feed launched September 2011.


 * OpenAccessArchives. Twitter feed launched July 2009.


 * OpenAccessPress. Twitter feed.


 * OpenCon. Twitter feed.


 * U.S. Open Data. Twitter feed launched November 2013.


 * OpenDOAR. Twitter feed for The Directory of Open Access Repositories, launched June 2012.


 * OpenEdition. Twitter feed launched March 2009.


 * OpenGenAlliance. Twitter feed launched January 2011.


 * Opening Science. Twitter feed launched December 2012.


 * OpenScienceLink. Twitter feed launched August 2013.


 * OSC Harvard. Twitter feed of The Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication, launched July 2010.


 * Oxford Open Science. Twitter feed of Open Knowledge affiliated Oxford Open Science regional working group, launched March 2012.


 * Paperity. Twitter feed launched May 2012.


 * PASTEUR40A. Twitter feed from Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research, launched February 2014.


 * Peerage of Science. Twitter feed launched December 2011.


 * PeerJ. Twitter feed launched November 2011.


 * PeerLibrary. Twitter feed launched March 2013.


 * PLoS. Twitter feed by Sara Kassabian, launched January 2008.
 * PLoS Biology. Twitter feed launched December 2009.
 * PLoS Blogs. Twitter feed launched August 2010.
 * PLoS Computational Biology. Twitter feed by PLOS Computational Biology Team, launched April 2010.
 * PLoS Currents: MD. Twitter feed by Liz Flavall, launched July 2011.
 * PLoS Labs. Twitter feed.
 * PLoS Medicine. Twitter feed launched November 2009.
 * PLoS ONE. Twitter feed by Michelle Dohm, launched March 2009.
 * PLos Pathogens. Twitter feed launched August 2010.


 * Press Forward. Twitter feed launched June 2011.


 * PsychOpen. Twitter feed launched July 2012.


 * Publons. Twitter feed launched September 2011.


 * PubMed Commons. Twitter feed launched September 2013.


 * RECODE. Twitter feed launched April 2013.


 * Redalyc. Twitter feed (in Spanish), launched August 2009. Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. System developed by the University of the State of Mexico.


 * Repositories Support Project (RSP). Twitter feed, launched June 2009.


 * Research Data Alliance. Twitter feed launched February 2013.


 * Research Publishing. Twitter feed launched September 2010.


 * Right to Research Coalition. Twitter feed launched February 2010.


 * rOpenSci. Twitter feed by Scott Chamberlain and Karthik Ram, launched July 2011.


 * Rubriq News. Twitter feed launched August 2012.


 * Sage Commons. Twitter feed launched February 2010.


 * The SAI Organization. Twitter feed launched September 2010.


 * Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC_NA). Twitter feed.


 * Sci Hub. Twitter feed.


 * scielo spain. Twitter feed.


 * Science 2.0. Twitter feed.


 * ScienceOnline. Twitter feed


 * ScienceOpen. Twitter feed from Tibor Tscheke and Liz Allen.


 * Search Engine BASE. Twitter feed.


 * SHARE. Twitter feed.


 * SHERPA/REF. Twitter feed.


 * SHERPA Services. Twitter feed, from Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham.


 * SPARC_Africa. Twitter feed, from the African Chapter of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.


 * SPARC Europe. Twitter feed.


 * Springer Open. Twitter feed.


 * SSRN. Twitter feed.


 * StrathclydeOA. Twitter feed.


 * SWORD Project. Twitter feed.


 * Texas Digital Library. Twitter feed.


 * TheCostOfKnowledge. Twitter feed.


 * the Winnower. Twitter feed.


 * Ubiquity Press. Twitter feed.


 * UCL Open Access. Twitter feed.


 * UFScholComm. Twitter feed from the UF Libraries Scholarly Communications Office.


 * UKCORR. Twitter feed.


 * UKPMC. Twitter feed.


 * UKOER. Twitter feed.


 * UKRepNet. Twitter feed.


 * Unglue.it. Twitter feed.


 * Uopen Access. Twitter feed.


 * VOA3R. Twitter feed.


 * The Wikipedia Library. Twitter feed.


 * Why Open Research?. Twitter feed.


 * Wiley Open Access. Twitter feed.


 * ZENODO. Twitter feed.