Pontika at 11:21, 3 February 2012

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[[File:oad2.jpeg|60px]] This list is part of the [http://oad.simmons.edu Open Access Directory].

* Here we are collecting policy statements on how academic authors, journals, and publishers should treat the opportunities created by the internet for free online access to research literature.
* We will accept statements by learned societies and professional associations in any field, from any country, in any language, whether they are favorable or unfavorable to open access.
* Alphabetical by organization.
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# [http://www.aaanet.org/anthrosource/index.htm American Anthropological Association]. AAA offers its members free online access to a vast array of resources in anthropology, including datasets, photos, videos, and the full-text contents of all AAA journals.
# [http://forms.aps.org/author/copytrnsfr.asc American Physical Society]. The copyright transfer agreement the APS uses with [http://publish.aps.org/ its journals], allowing authors to post articles to eprint servers. February 2001.
# [http://www.apa.org/journals/authors/posting.html American Psychological Association]. June 1, 2001.
# [http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_policy/ Association for Computing Machinery]. See especially 1.1, 3.1, 5.1. This 1998 policy has been updated and supplemented by current rules for preprints.
# [http://www.alpsp.org/grantli.pdf Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers]. The model "license to publish" that it recommends for use by society journals.
# [http://www.ercim.org/ European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics] (ERCIM). The statement supports OA to texts and data and binds all ERCIM member organizations.
# [http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/ Florida Entomological Society]. The statement of its journal, Florida Entomologist.
# [http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/index.html The Geological Society]. The policy that applies to all of its journals.
# [http://wuecon.wustl.edu/~hyperjrn/rae.htm Higher Education Funding Council for England]. This excerpt of the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise is the only part relevant to open access, and the only part still on the web.
# [http://wuecon.wustl.edu/~hyperjrn/rae.htm ICSU-UNESCO]. ICSU = International Council for Science. UNESCO = United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
# [http://outage.iop.org/ Institute of Physics]. See paragraphs 3.1 and 3.2.
# [http://www.mathunion.org/IMU_Committees/call_authors.html International Mathematical Union]. Endorsement of "open access" as a goal for all mathematical literature (May 15, 2001). The IMU has also endorsed [http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~wilfrid/copyrightdoc.pdf copyright advice] for mathematicians; see especially point 3.c from the Executive Summary. Also see the IMU's [http://www.mathunion.org/IMU_Committees/want_pub.html short version] of the Hodges checklist.
# [http://www.iupap.org/finalrep.html International Union of Pure and Applied Physics]. July 2001 Report of an IUPAP working group on scholarly communication. Recommendations, not yet policy. Also see the [http://publish.aps.org/reports/ltaddp_report.html report] on a subsequent November meeting which adopted steps toward the realization of the July recommendations.
# [http://www.mlanet.org/government/info_access/openaccess_statement.html Medical Library Association]. October 2003 statement of policy.
# [http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=6 Russian Society of BioPsychiatry]. I can't find the actual text yet and have linked to a news account of the statement.
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For policy statements by journal publishers, see the list at the [http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/#publishers-do Self-Archiving FAQ] and [http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Project SHERPA].

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