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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, 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 near the upper right corner. 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 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
 * 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 launch services
 * OA publication funds
 * OA speakers bureau
 * 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
 * Research wikis
 * 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
 * Free and open-source tools for OA
 * Historical embargo periods
 * Journal open-data policies
 * OA in different disciplines
 * Open data policies
 * Scholarships, Fellowship, and Internships in OA
 * Tools for OA
 * University actions

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