Blogs about OA

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


 * This is list of blogs which focus largely on open access.


 * Please indicate the blog's author or primary authors. When its primary language is not English, please indicate what it is.


 * Alphabetical.


 * If a blog is no longer updated, move it from the active blog list to the discontinued blog list.


 * Related lists in OAD: (1) Discontinued blogs about OA, (2) Discussion forums, (3) Social media sites about OA

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 * Abierto al publico (RSS feed). In Spanish.


 * About Open Access (RSS feed). From the University Medical Center Gronigen.


 * @ccess. "Sharing the results of scientific research." (No RSS feed?) From the @ccess project.


 * Acceso Abierto (RSS feed). From Carolina De Volder.  In Spanish.


 * "Access Denied?": Fighting for the 'Right to Open Access' (RSS feed) . A student-run blog inspired by the Right to Research Coalition.


 * Access to Health Information (RSS feed). From Juan Ramos.


 * Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (RSS feed). From Peter Magierski and Charles Ellwood Jones.


 * Ancient World Open Bibliographies (RSS feed). From Chuck Jones.


 * Ann's Blog. "My Musings on Open Science and Public Engagement."


 * Anyway (RSS feed). From Marijke. In Dutch.


 * Arab Initiatives of Open Access (RSS feed). From Sulieman Salem Alshuhri and others.  In Arabic.


 * Archivalia: Category Open Access (RSS Feed). From Klaus Graf.  In German.
 * Contains also entries in English on Open Access: English Corner


 * Association of Research Libraries - Scholarly Communication (RSS feed)


 * Australian Open Access Support Group (RSS feed). "Supporting open access to Australian research".


 * Author Rights Model License Language (RSS feed for news/updates to the blog) (RSS feed for comments about the language)


 * autour de l'Open Science (RSS feed). From Nadege Joly and Taina Cluzeau. In French.


 * AWOL - The Ancient World Online (RSS feed). In English.  From Charles Jones.

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 * Be Openly Accessible or Be Obscure (RSS feed). From Jim Till.


 * BioMed Central Blog (RSS feed). From BioMed Central.


 * BioSharing (RSS feed). From Dawn Field.


 * Blog do Kuramoto. From Hélio Kuramoto. In Portuguese


 * Blog ONE (RSS feed). From Niyaz Ahmed.


 * Brainstorm in Progress (RSS feed). From Geoff Cain.

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 * City Open Access (RSS feed). From Neil Stewart at City University.


 * College Open Textbooks Blog (RSS feed). From Sharyn Fitzpatrick and Rod Kirk.


 * communs / commons / comuns / comunes (No RSS feed). The blog associated with the Public Domain Manifesto.  In French.


 * Comptoir de l'accès ouvert (RSS feed). OA and libraries. In french.


 * Copyright and "Open" Movements Blog (RSS feed). From James D. "Kip" Currier.


 * Copyright on Campus (RSS feed). From Christine Ross


 * Create Change (RSS feed)


 * Creative Commons (RSS feed)


 * Cureus Blog (No RSS feed). Associated with Cureus, the open access medical science journal.

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 * DataUp (RSS feed). From the University of California Curation Center (UC3) and the California Digital Library.


 * Digging Digitally (RSS feed). From Erik Kansa.


 * Digital & Scholarly (RSS feed). From Adrian K. Ho.


 * DigitalKoans (RSS feed). From Charles W. Bailey, Jr.


 * Directory of Open Access Books (RSS feed).


 * Dryad news and views (RSS feed). From the Dryad open-data repository.


 * DuraSpace Blog (RSS feed). From Carissa Smith, Carol Minton Morris, and Valorie Hollister at DuraSpace.


 * Dynamic Repositories (RSS feed). From Paola Bongiovani. In Spanish.

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 * E-LIS: Open Access Archive for LIS (RSS feed). From Alireza Noruzi.  In Persian.


 * End-to-End Open Access No RSS Feed?. From JISC.


 * EPrints News (RSS feed). From EPrints.


 * EPT (Electronic Publishing Trust for Development) (RSS feed). From Barbara Kirsop.


 * EveryONE (RSS feed). From PLoS ONE.

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 * Film Studies For Free (RSS feed). From Catherine Grant.


 * Free as in Science (RSS feed). From Sandeep Gautam.


 * Free Government Information (RSS feed). From Jim A. Jacobs and others.


 * Fuse Open Science Blog (RSS Feed). From The Center for Translational Research in Public Health.


 * Free US ETDs (FUSE). "Promoting Open Access to American graduate research". From Gail Clement.

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 * Gavin Baker (RSS feed). From Gavin Baker.
 * Only the posts about open access (RSS feed)


 * Gold Open Access Infrastructure.


 * Gulliver Turtle's Blog (RSS feed). From Gulliver, BioMed Central's open access turtle.

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 * A Hacker's View: Open Access, Digital Publishing, and Academic Writing (RSS feed). From Andrea Hacker.


 * hinc-omnia (RSS feed) . Based out of Uniwersytet Warszawski. In Polish.


 * Huddersfield Open Access Publishing (RSS feed). From the Huddersfield Open Access Publishing project, which is part of the JISC Digital infrastructure programme.

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 * I Love Open Access "Arguments for Open Access to Research Results".


 * iCommons.org (RSS feed)


 * The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (RSS feed). From Heather Morrison.


 * Indian IDR World (RSS feed). "Blog on Indian Institutional Repository."   From Ziaul Haque.


 * Informationsplattform Open Access (RSS feed). In German.  A joint project of the Universities of Bielefeld, Goettingen, Constance, and the Free University of Berlin.


 * Iniedigital (RSS feed) Education Research Institute (INIE)Journal Actualidades Investigativas en Educación University of Costa Rica. In Spanish. From Isabel Jara Quesada and Alejandro Vílchez Barboza.


 * InTechWeb Blog (RSS feed). From InTechWeb.


 * Intellectual Property Watch (RSS feed)


 * IOSA.it Open Archaeology (RSS feed). From Stefano Costa.


 * Issues in Scholarly Communication (RSS feed)


 * iterating toward openness (RSS feed). From David Wiley


 * InfoDoc MicroVeille (RSS feed). From Hans Dillaerts

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 * Jeszke (RSS feed). From ?ukasz Jeszke.  In Polish.


 * John Wilbanks' Blog (RSS feed). From John Wilbanks.


 * JoRD. (RSS feed). From JoRD (Journal Research Data Policy Bank).


 * Journalology (RSS feed). From Matt Hodgkinson.

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 * Knowledge Ecology International (RSS feed)


 * KnowledgeMaze (RSS Feed). From Access to Knowledge for Development Center

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 * L’édition électronique ouverte (RSS feed). "The open electronic publishing blog."  From Marin Dacos and others at the Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (CLEO). In French.


 * Lessig blog (RSS feed). From Lawrence Lessig.


 * Lever Initiative (No RSS feed). Investigating open access in American liberal arts colleges for The Oberlin Group.


 * Libertas Academica (RSS feed). "Open access journals, science, and the publishing business."  From Libertas Academica, the OA journal publisher.


 * Liber-Libre[ http://erinclupp.wordpress.com/feed/ (RSS feed)]. From Erin Clupp, librarian, archivist and bookbinder.


 * LOCH. Lessons in Open Access Compliance for Higher Education. (RSS Feed). From Dominik Tate, University of Edinburgh.

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 * McBlawg (RSS feed). From Graham Steel.


 * Medimise.com. (No RSS feed.)  "Open Access Medical Research and Health News".  Anon.


 * Michael Geist Blog (RSS feed). From Michael Geist.


 * MIT Society for Open Science (RSS feed). From the MIT student group, MIT Society for Open Science.


 * Modus Operandi for Repository Deposits (RSS feed). From the JISC-Funded DepositMO project.


 * Mohylianska bibliotekarka (RSS feed). From Tetiana Yaroshenko. In Ukrainian.

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 * NARAtions (RSS feed). "A Blog about Online Public Access to the Records of the U.S. National Archives."


 * Netzwerk von Open-Access-Repositorien (RSS feed). From the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI).  In German.


 * The New Open Access (NOA) for journal publishing industry (RSS feed). From Reza Farrahi.

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 * Open Access India Building Open Access Movement in India.


 * OA Bibliography (RSS feed). From Lucia Bertini.  In English and Italian.


 * OA Good Practice Pathfind Project - Bath (RSS feed). Reporting on the JISC-Funded Project run by the GW4 partnership between the University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University and University of Exeter.


 * OA Librarian (RSS feed). From Heather Morrison and Andrew Waller.


 * OA-RJ project blog (RSS feed). From the Open Access Repository Junction (OA-RJ) project.


 * OA@UCD (RSS feed). From the University College Dublin.


 * OAMPHJ (Open Access Medical and Public Health Journals: links to latest updates) (RSS feed).


 * OASCIR (RSS feed). "Building an Institutional Repository for the University of Khartoum's Faculty of Science."  From Pablo de Castro and Rania Baleela.


 * OASPA News and Comment (RSS feed). From the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).


 * The Occasional Pamphlet (RSS feed). From Stuart Shieber.


 * OCW Blog (RSS feed). "Blogging the OpenCourseWare and OER Movements."  From Mike Caulfield.


 * OERderves (RSS feed). From Marshall Smith, Catherine Casserly, and Phoenix Wang.


 * OER Research Hub (No RSS Feed). From Patrick McAndrew, Martin Weller, Robert Farrow, and Beck Pitt.


 * OJS Latin America (RSS feed). "Regional news and information about Open Journal Systems."  From Open Journal Systems.


 * OKF Open Science Working Group (No RSS feed?). From Open Knowledge Foundation. In German.


 * oMedPub (RSS feed). From iMedPub.


 * Omega Alpha Open Access (RSS feed). "Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology."  From Gary Daught.


 * Open... (RSS feed). From Glyn Moody.


 * Open Access all'Universita di Torino (No RSS feed). From L'Universita di Torino. In Italian.


 * Open Access and Digital Scholarship Blog (RSS feed). From the Imperial College London.


 * Open Access blogg RSS feed). In Norwegian.


 * Open Access Initiatives: India (RSS feed). From Sehdeep Kaur at the University of British Columbia.


 * Open Access for All (RSS feed). From Jenna Horowitz.


 * Open Access Linguistics (RSS feed). From George Walken.


 * Open Access - Making Sense (RSS feed). Associated with the JISC OA pathfinder project and Oxford Brookes University.fope


 * Open Access to Scholarly Communication (RSS feed). From Frank van Laerhoven at Utrecht University.


 * Open Access to Scientific Communication (RSS feed). From Hans Dillaerts and Helene Bosc. In English and French.


 * Open Folklore (No RSS feed). From the Open Folklore Project, including Julie Bobay and Timothy Lloyd.


 * Open Syllabus Project (No RSS feed). Created using a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.


 * openfigures (RSS feed). Compiled figures and images from open access papers from Public Library of Science (PLOS).


 * OpenAccess@StAndrews. From St Andrews University Library.


 * Open.Michigan blog. From the University of Michigan Open.Michigan project.  (No RSS feed?)


 * Openness is Freedom. From Simone Aliprandi.


 * Open2Learn (RSS feed). From Robert Hughes, Jr.


 * openarchives.gr/blog (RSS feed). In Greek. From Vangelis Banos.


 * Open@VT (RSS feed). Open access at Virginia Tech. From Philip Young.


 * OpenBibBlog (RSS feed). "Das Blog zu OpenBib und OPAC 2.0."  From Oliver Flimm.  In German.


 * OpenBioMed.info (RSS feed). From Charlie Greenberg.


 * OpenContentLawyer (RSS feed). From Jordan S. Hatcher.


 * Openining Scholarship. (RSS feed) "Voices from the South." From Laura Czerniewicz, Eve Gray, Michael Paskevicius, Ed Rybicki, Shihaam Shaikh, and Michelle Willmers.


 * Opening Science (RSS feed). From the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin.


 * OpenPub(RSS feed).


 * Open-STEPS (No RSS feed?). From Alex Corbi and Margo Thierry.


 * OpenStreetMap Blog (RSS feed). From OpenStreetMap.


 * The OpenScience Project (RSS feed). From Dan Gezelter and others, focusing on free and open-source scientific software.


 * OpenWetWare Community Blog (RSS feed). From OpenWetWare.


 * Open Access (RSS feed). From Karen Marie Øvern, Klaus Tollan, and Aneta Laskowsk.  In Norwegian.


 * Open Access @ CUNY (RSS feed). "Highlighting open access efforts across the University". From librarians at the City University of New York.


 * Open Access Advocate (RSS feed). Anon.


 * Open Access Anthropology (RSS feed). From Kerim Friedman, Alex Golub, Kambiz Kamrani, and Christopher Kelty.


 * Open Access Archeology (RSS feed). From Doug.


 * Open Access Archivangelism (RSS feed). From Stevan Harnad.


 * Open Access Blog. In Dutch.


 * Open Access & Open Data (RSS feed). From The Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands.


 * Open Access, Freedom Space (RSS feed).  From Zhiming Wang.


 * Open Access in Hannover (RSS feed). "Informationen und Veranstaltungen über Open Access in Hannover."  In German.


 * Open Access i Sverige "Kungliga bibliotekets blogg för alla som arbetar med open access i Sverige." (RSS feed). From Kungliga Bibliotekeket, The National Library of Sweden. In Swedish.


 * Open Access Japan (RSS feed). Maintained by Shinji Mine.  In Japanese.


 * Open-Access-Netzwerk (RSS feed). From Robin Malitz.  In German.


 * An Open Access Peon. No RSS feed?  From Tim Brody.


 * Open Access Publisering (RSS feed). From Karen Marie Øvern.  In Norwegian.


 * Open Access Publishing Blog. (No RSS feed?)


 * Open Access Week - October 19-23, 2009 (RSS feed).


 * Open and Shut? (RSS feed). From Richard Poynder.


 * Open Archaeology (RSS feed). From IOSA.it.  (The blog is the IOSA.it home page.)


 * Open Assembly Blog. Founded by Domi Enders.


 * Open Bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data (RSS feed). From the Open Knowledge Foundation.


 * Open Book Alliance (RSS feed). From Peter Brantley and Gary Reback.  The blog is the OBA home page.


 * Open Chemistry Web (RSS feed). From Will Griffiths.


 * Open Citations (RSS feed). From The JISC Open Citations Project.


 * Open Cloud Consortium (RSS feed).


 * Open Content Alliance blog (RSS feed). From the OCA (the blog is its home page).


 * Open Course Ware blog (RSS feed). From John Dehlin and others.


 * Open Culture (RSS feed). "The best free cultural & educational media on the web."


 * Open Data. (RSS feed). From The World Bank.


 * Open Data Commons (RSS feed). From Jordan Hatch.


 * Open Data Em Portugal (RSS feed). From Filipe Cruz.


 * Open Data Foundation (RSS feed). From the Open Data Foundation.


 * Open Data Forum Blog (No RSS feed). In Dutch.


 * Open Data Institute of North Carolina Blog. From the Open Data Institute of North Carolina.


 * Open Data Now. From Joel Gurin


 * The Open Dinosaur Project (RSS feed). From Andy Farke, Matt Wedel, and Mike Taylor.


 * Open Education News (RSS feed). From David Wiley and others.


 * Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (RSS feed). Led by the Open University in Scotland.


 * Open Electronic Publishing (RSS feed). From the OpenEdition platform, developed by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo, France).


 * Open Everything[* (RSS feed). "Open-Data, Open-Access & Open-Design". In German.


 * Open Exeter(RSS feed). "Human Factors in Research Data Management".


 * Open Glam (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)(RSS feed). From The Open Knowledge Foundation.


 * Open Government Blog (RSS feed). From the White House of the Obama administration.


 * Open Humanities. From the Working Group on Humanities at the Open Knowledge Foundation. (No RSS feed?)


 * Open Knowledge Community Stories (RSS feed). From Open Knowledge.


 * Open Knowledge Ethiopia (RSS feed). From Open Knowledge Foundation.


 * Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog (RSS feed). From Rufus Pollock and others.


 * Open Librarian(RSS feed). From Gerry McKiernan.


 * The Open Library Blog (RSS feed). From The Open Library.


 * Open Mathbook (RSS feed). From Albert Schueller.


 * Open Matters(RSS feed). From MIT.


 * Open Movements(RSS feed). From Stefan Baack. In German.


 * Open Personalized Health Informatics (RSS feed). "Open Access + Open Code + Open Data = Better Family Health."


 * Open Reading Frame (RSS feed). From Bill Hooker.
 * Open Access/Open Science category


 * Open Reflections (RSS feed). From Janneke Adema.


 * Open Repository Blog (RSS feed). From Graham Triggs.


 * Open Research Online (RSS feed). From Colin Smith and Sheila Chudasama at the (UK) Open University.


 * Open Scholar C.I.C.. From a group of scholars, editors, and librarians working to improve scholarly evaluation and communication.


 * Open Scholarship(RSS feed) "Promoting open knowledge and working practices within the University of Edinburgh". From The University of Edinburgh.


 * Open Science dot com(RSS feed). A guide to Open Access publishing and Open Science. The blog is owned by De Gruyter Open. Most of blog posts by Witold Kieńć.


 * Open Science Collaboration Blog. An open collaboration supported by the Center for Open Science.


 * Open Science Kentucky (RSS feed).


 * Open Scotland: Promoting the Development and Adoption of Open Education Polices and Practices in Scotland. Started after the Open Scotland Summit.


 * Open Scriptures (RSS feed). The blog for the project of the same name.


 * Open Source Open History (RSS feed). From William G. Thomas.


 * Open Source Paleontologist (RSS feed). From Andy.


 * Open source customization . From Open source customization.


 * Open Students (RSS feed). "Student news from the OA movement."  From the Right to Research Coalition.


 * Open Students (RSS feed). From Gavin Baker.  (No longer updated.)


 * Open Thinking (RSS feed). "Rants & resources from an open educator."  From Alex Couros.


 * Opening Science (RSS feed). From The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).


 * Opening Scientific Communication (RSS feed). From the Euroscience Working Group on Open Access.


 * Open World (RSS feed). From Lorna M. Campbell.


 * OptimalScholarship (RSS feed). From Alma Swan.


 * Optimising resources to develop a strategic approach to Open Access (RSS feed). From Nick Woolley, David Young, and Ellen Cole at Northumbria University.


 * Orwik: The Open Science Platform (RSS feed). From Barak Shahen.


 * Otwarta nauka (RSS feed). [Open Learning]  In Polish.


 * Outernet Blog (RSS feed). From Thane Richard.

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 * The Parachute (RSS feed). From Jan Velterop.


 * PhysMath Central Blog (RSS feed). From Chris Leonard.


 * PLoS Blog (RSS feed) From the Public Library of Science.


 * Project Gutenberg News (RSS feed).


 * Publications Router No RSS Feed? From EDINA.


 * PubChem Blog (RSS feed). From PubChem.


 * Public Domain Review (No RSS feed). From the Open Knowledge Foundation.


 * Public Knowledge Project (RSS feed)


 * Publish Open Access (RSS feed). From iMedPub.


 * Publishing Archaeology Blog (RSS feed). From Michael E. Smith.

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 * RepositoryMan (RSS feed). From Les Carr.


 * Repository News (RSS feed). From the repository team at Leeds Beckett University.


 * Research Communications Strategy (RSS feed). From the JISC-funded RSC project.


 * Return on Academic Research (RSS feed). From Association ROARS. In Italian.


 * Repositories Support Project blog (RSS feed). From the UK Repositories Support Project.


 * RSP Blog Directory. From The JISC-funded Repositories Support Project.

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 * SAS Open Journals (RSS feed). SAS = School of Advanced Study, University of London.  From Peter Webster.


 * Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week (SV-POW!) (RSS feed). Although this blog started out as pure palaeontology, it's now a 50-50 blend of sauropods and open-access advocacy.


 * Scholarly Communication and Open Science (RSS Feed) From Yimei Zhu.


 * Scholarly Communications @ Duke (RSS feed). From Kevin Smith.


 * Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (RSS feed). From Charles W. Bailey, Jr.


 * Scholarly Open Access (RSS feed). "Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing." From Jeffrey Beall.


 * Scholar Blog (RSS feed). From the KUBIS Center for Scholarly Communication at the University of Copenhagen.  In Danish.


 * Science Commons (RSS feed)


 * Scientific Data Sharing Project. No RSS feed?  From the Data Sharing Project, launched by Michael Weiner.


 * Scinoptica (RSS feed). From Ulrich Herb. "Science consulting, open access, scientific publishing, open knowledge & open science."  Partially in German language.


 * A Scientist and the Web (RSS feed). From Peter Murray-Rust.


 * Share Anthropology (RSS feed). "Sharing and disseminating open access anthropology."  From Kerim Friedman.


 * SHERPA RoMEO Blog (RSS feed). From SHERPA RoMEO.


 * SHERPA Services Blog(RSS feed). "Opening Access to research". From JISC, The Joint Information Systems Committee.


 * Sociology of Science and Open Access. From Luis-Reyes Galindo.


 * SONEX (Scholarly Output Notification and Exchange) blog (RSS feed). From the JISC-funded SONEX project.


 * SPARC blog (RSS feed). From SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).


 * Sphere (RSS feed). From Eloy Rodrigues and others.  In Portuguese.


 * Spreading Science (RSS feed). From Richard Gayle and others.
 * Only the posts about open access.


 * SSRN blog (RSS feed).


 * Students for Free Culture (RSS feed)


 * Students for Free Culture - Chapter News (RSS feed)


 * Subbiah Arunachalam: Open Access Advocate (RSS feed).  From Subbiah Arunachalam.


 * Sustaining the Knowledge Commons. From Heather Morrison.

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 * The One Repo blog (RSS Feed) From Mike Taylor and Index Data.


 * The Open Data Research Portal (RSS feed). From Fraunhofer Fokus. In Dutch and English.


 * Trinity's Open Access News. (RSS feed).

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 * UCR publicaa (RSS fedd). From the Latindex Project Representatives at the University of Costa Rica. In Spanish.


 * UJDigispace (RSS feed). "Institutional repository and scholarly communication."  (UJ = University of Johannesburg.)  From Matizi.


 * UK Council of Research Repositories (RSS feed). From Jenny Delasalle, Mary Robinson, and the committee of the UKCoRR.


 * UK PubMed Central Blog (RSS feed). From UK PubMed Central.


 * Universo Abierto (RSS feed). From Biblioteca de la Facultad de Traducción y Documentación de la Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). In Spanish.


 * Unlocking Research (RSS feed). From University of Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communication.


 * Useful Chemistry (RSS feed). From Jean-Claude Bradley and others.


 * Utah Open Textbook Project. "Determining the Cost Effectiveness and Educational Effectiveness of Open Textbooks."  From Brigham Young University.

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 * The Value of Openness "The PatientsLikeMe Blog." (RSS feed).


 * VIKAS PSOAR (RSS feed). Pharmaceutical Sciences Open Access Resources: Vikas PSOAR and Vikas PGIAR.  From Vikas Anand Saharan, Mahesh Kataria, and Vipin Kukkar.

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 * Welsh Repository Network (RSS feed).


 * Who Needs Access? You Need Access! (RSS feed). From the @ccessworking group.


 * Wide Open (RSS feed). From John Hilton III.


 * Wiley Open Access Blog (RSS feed). From Wiley Open Access.


 * Wissenschaftsurheberrecht (RSS feed). From Eric Steinhauer.  In German.


 * WissPub.net (RSS feed). From Heinz Pampel, Cornelius Puschmann, Nils Windisch, and Robert Forkel.  In German.


 * World of Chemistry for All - Free Chemistry Online Resources (RSS feed). Anon.


 * WoW! Wouter on the Web (RSS feed).  From Wouter Gerritsma.