Lists maintained by others

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


 * This is a list of OA-related lists hosted and maintained by others, not by the Open Access Directory.


 * Related lists on OAD: Wikis about OA.


 * Alphabetical by list title.

A

 * Author addenda. At the International Repositories Infrastructure wiki.
 * Also see the OAD list of Author addenda.


 * Agreements
 * Author Agreements for LIS journals. From dLIST.
 * Public/Private Mass Digitization Agreements. From OCLC.
 * Publishers' license agreements. Maintained by EBSCO.

B

 * Bibliographies
 * Bibliography of empirical studies on open access. A section within the Wikipedia article on open access.
 * The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies. Maintained by Steve Hitchcock.
 * Open Access Bibliography, ARL 2005. By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. On July 21, 2008, this work moved to OAD as the Bibliography of open access.
 * Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Maintained by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Here are the sections most relevant to OA:
 * 7. New Publishing Models
 * 9. Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI
 * Open Access Journals Bibliography. Maintained by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
 * Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography. From Charles W. Bailey, Jr.  First released September 2010.
 * Bibliography on open access initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean A section within UNESCO-Global Open Access Portal-Latin America and the Caribbean


 * Books (not individual OA books, but lists of OA books and lists of collections of OA books)
 * Free Book Centre. OA science books.
 * free literature. Includes a very large list of collections of OA books.
 * Free Tech Books. Books in computer science and engineering.
 * The Online Books Page. From John Mark Ockerbloom.
 * Open Library. From the Open Content Alliance.
 * Planet eBook. From Richard Crocker.
 * Project Gutenberg. Public-domain books of all kinds.
 * Also see Textbooks below.

C

 * Campus-Based Publishing Partnerships. From the Columbia University Libraries. #


 * Case studies (not individual case studies but lists of case studies)
 * Case studies of campus-based publishing partnerships. From SPARC.
 * Case studies of projects using CC licenses. From Creative Commons.
 * Open access and central funds. From BioMed Central.  Case studies of universities with funds to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals.
 * Repository case studies. From the Repositories Support Project.
 * Also see the "oa.case..." tag libraries from the OA Tracking Project.


 * Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN). From the Open Knowledge Foundation. "A registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own."

D

 * Data repositories. From DataCite, the British Library, BioMed Central, and the Digital Curation Centre.


 * Developing country initiatives (not individual initiatives but lists of initiatives)
 * Developing Country Initiatives. From ALPSP.  (No longer maintained?)
 * Developing Nations Initiatives. Maintained by Ann Okerson.
 * Open Science Directory. Maintained by EBSCO and Hasselt University.

F

 * Free Online Full-text Articles. Limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press. Maintained by Highwire Press, Stanford University.


 * Funding agencies willing to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals (not individual funders but lists of funders)
 * Funding agencies allowing direct use of their grants to cover article-processing charges. Maintained by BioMed Central.


 * Funding agencies with OA policies (not individual funders but lists of funders)
 * Juliet, a database of funder policies from SHERPA.
 * MELIBEA, a list of funder policies from Spain's Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (IATA) within the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). MELIBEA gives each policy a score based on its provisions.  Also includes university OA policies.
 * ROARMAP, a list of funder policies from EPrints. Also includes university OA policies.
 * Summary of funding agency policies on open access, a comparative table of funder policies from BioMed Central.

G

 * Glossary of Open Access Abbreviations, Acronyms and Terms. Maintained by SHERPA.
 * Also see the OAD list of Acronyms about OA.


 * Good practices for university open-access policies. By Stuart Shieber and Peter Suber. Version 1.0 launched October 17, 2012.

J

 * Journals participating in PubMed Central. Maintained by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).


 * Journals That Submit All Final Published Articles to PubMed Central. Maintained by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

O

 * OA in different countries
 * National Open Access Desks. From OpenAIRE.
 * OA in the European Union. From the DRIVER Wiki. Links to separate pages on 27 countries.
 * OA in Non-EU Europe. From the DRIVER Wiki. Links to separate pages on 7 countries.
 * OA outside Europe. From the DRIVER Wiki. Links to separate pages on 11 countries.
 * Worldwide momentum for public access to publicly funded research. From the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.  Apparently not updated since 2006.


 * OA in different fields
 * OA in individual disciplines. From the Informationsplattform Open Access.  Links to separate pages on 15 fields.


 * OAI Service Providers. Maintained by the Open Archives Initiative. For OAI data providers, see Open access repositories (below).


 * OAKList. An Australian database on publisher policies on copyright and self-archiving. Maintained by The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project. The OAKList is fully interoperable with the Project SHERPA List (see below).


 * Online databases. A small list.


 * Open access journals (lists covering all fields)
 * Die Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (English version) (EZB)
 * Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Limited to peer-reviewed journals.
 * Directory of Open Access Journals in Japan (DOAJJ). Not limited to peer-reviewed journals.
 * Jan Szczepanski's lists of open access journals. Not limited to peer-reviewed journals. Also here.
 * Jan Sczcepanski's working list.
 * List of open access journals. From Wikipedia.
 * LivRe
 * Nottingham Trent University list of Free E-Journals. Apparently not limited to peer-reviewed journals.
 * OA journals with individual pages in Wikipedia


 * University of Nevada Collection of Free Electronic Journals


 * Open access journals (lists for individual fields)
 * Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies. From Charles Ellwood Jones.
 * OA journals in archaeology. From WikiArc.
 * Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry. Maintained by Alexander Ragoisha.
 * American Educational Research SIG list of OA journals in education. Maintained by Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh.
 * OA journals in educational technology. From George Veletsianos.
 * JURN Directory. OA journals in the humanities.  From JURN.
 * OA journals in geoscience.
 * Free Medical Journals. From Amedeo.
 * Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies


 * Open access repositories (the major lists)
 * Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR).
 * Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).


 * Open data businesses. "Businesses making a good living with open data."  From the Open Knowledge Foundation.


 * Open data policies (not individual OD policies but lists of OD policies)
 * Scientific Data Policy Statements. From CODATA.


 * Open educational resources (not individual OER but lists of OER).
 * Academic Room.
 * Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE). From the U.S. Department of Education.
 * OER Commons. From the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education.
 * OER Matrix. A Google spreadsheet for community updating.  From Tom Caswell.
 * OER Projects at English-Speaking Universities. From Jared Stein.  (Background.)
 * Online College Classes.
 * Open Course Library.  Developed by Washington State Colleges and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Washington State Legislature.
 * Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations (ODEPO). From Creative Commons.
 * Open Educational Resources Center for California. From Foothill College.
 * Open Educational Resources. From the Development Gateway Foundation.
 * Open Educational Resources. From the Internet Archive. Contains videos on lectures from many disciplines.
 * Online College Courses.
 * Open Educational Resources. From UNESCO.
 * WirelessU.
 * Also see the OAD list of OER repositories.


 * Open licenses. Part of the Open Licenses Service from the Open Knowledge Foundation.


 * Open Services. Services satisfying the open software service definition.  From the Open Knowledge Foundation.

P

 * Publication fees at fee-based OA journals (not individual fees but lists of fees)
 * Comparison of BioMed Central's Article Processing Charges with those of other publishers. From BioMed Central.


 * Publisher mergers (not individual mergers but lists of mergers)
 * Publisher mergers and acquisitions. Maintained by Mary Munroe for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Information Access Alliance (IAA).
 * Publisher mergers. Maintained by the University of California - Berkeley.  Last updated 10/30/08.


 * Publisher policies on self-archiving and copyright (not individual policies but lists of policies)
 * Australian journal policies (OAKlist). From the OAK Law Project.
 * Journal Policies - List of Publishers. From EPrints.
 * Journals frequently used by Wellcome Trust grantholders: summary of publisher open access policies. From the Wellcome Trust.
 * Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving (RoMEO). Maintained by Project SHERPA.
 * Publishers allowing the deposition of their published version/PDF in Institutional Repositories. From SHERPA.
 * Spanish journal policies (Dulcinea). From the Universities of Barcelona and Valencia.
 * Also see the OAD list, Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors.


 * Publisher policies on inter-library loan of electronic content. Maintained by the Interlibrary Loan Project at the Yale University Library.


 * Publishers who froze subscription prices for 2010. Maintained by Ad Hoc Committee for Advocating Scholarly Communications at the Medical Library Association.


 * Publishers of OA books (not individual publishers but lists of publishers)
 * Overview of OA Book Publishers. From OAPEN.
 * Also see the OAD list, Publishers of OA books.


 * Publishers with hybrid OA journal programs (not individual publishers but lists of publishers)
 * Publishers offering the hybrid open access option in their journals. Maintained at Wikipedia as part of the "Hybrid open access journal" entry.
 * Publishers with Paid Options for Open Access. From SHERPA.


 * PubMed Central Open Access Subset. Maintained by PubMed Central.  All articles in PMC are gratis OA.  This is the subset of articles which are libre OA.

R

 * Reader on Open Access for Development. Maintained by Ismael Peña-López.


 * Repository support organizations, organized by nation. At the International Repositories Infrastructure wiki.
 * Also see the OAD list of Services to support repository managers.

S

 * Science databases. Maintained by Gary Price.  Organized by field.


 * Society publishers with OA journals. An Excel spreadsheet under a CC-BY license.  Maintained by Caroline Sutton and Peter Suber.


 * Software for repositories (not individual software packages but lists of software packages)
 * Repository software. At the International Repositories Infrastructure wiki.

T

 * Textbooks (not individual OA textbooks, but lists of OA textbooks and lists of collections of OA textbooks)
 * Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection. From the Open Culture blog.
 * Also see Books, above.

U

 * Universities with OA policies (not individual universities but lists of universities)
 * MELIBEA, a list of university policies from Spain's Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (IATA) within the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). MELIBEA gives each policy a score based on its provisions.  Also includes funding agency OA policies.
 * ROARMAP, a list of university policies from EPrints. Also includes funding agency OA policies.


 * University lectures (not individual lectures, but lists of lectures; free online audio and/or video)
 * Academic Earth
 * Forum Network. From the US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR).
 * Supercourse. In 26 languages.  Mostly in public health.
 * VideoLectures.net.


 * University copyright policies (not individual policies, but lists of policies)
 * University Copyright Ownership Policies. From the Creative Commons Open Education project.  (A wiki-like format allows users to add new policies.)