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.

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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 moderated by Jeffrey Beall.

• 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 moderated by Alessandro Valenzano.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Google+ page moderated by Dom Mitchell.

• 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 (in French) moderated by Nicolas Barts.

• Open Access. Google+ community (in German).

• Open Access. Google+ community.

• Open Access. Google+ page.

• Open Access Button. Google+ page.

• Open Access Foundation. Google+ page.

• Open Access im Recht. Google+ page (in German) by Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Recht.

• Open Access India. Google+ community.

• Open Access India. Google+ page.

• Open Access Support Group. Google+ community launched by Trent M Kays and Melonie Fullick.

• 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 (in Spanish).

• 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.
• AusGOAL | Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Programme. A LinkedIn group moderated by Baden Appleyard.
• 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 Library (OALib). A LinkedIn group moderated by Dieter Scholz and Lydia Chan.

• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). A LinkedIn group launched October 7, 2009, by Caroline Sutton. Converted from private to public August 2011.

• Open Data innovations Network. A LinkedIn group moderated by Oleg Petrov et al.

• Open Data Research Network. A LinkedIn group moderated by Tim Davies, Katie Clancy, Fernando Perini, José Manuel Alonso, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.

• 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 from the University of Cambridge Open Access Service.

• Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University. Twitter feed launched December 2010.

• Closed Access J. Twitter feed.

• Communia EU Network. Twitter feed launched November 2009.

• 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.
  • Conocimiento Abierto. Twitter feed (in Spanish) for Open Knowledge Argentina, launched June 2013.
  • OKF DE. Twitter feed (in German and English) for Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland, launched February 2011.
  • OKFpy. Twitter feed (in Spanish) for Open Knowledge Paraguay.
  • OKFNBG. Twitter feed (in Bulgarian) for the Bulgarian Open Knowledge Foundation local group, founded July 2012.
  • OKFN Burkina Faso. Twitter feed (in French and English) for Open Knowledge Foundation Burkina Faso, launched November 2013.
  • Open Data Hong Kong. Twitter feed for Open Knowledge Foundation affiliated Open Data Hong Kong, launched March 2013.

• 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 from Max Planck Society Open Access Ambassadors.

• 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.

• opendatacon. Twitter feed for the International Open Data Conference.

• 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 launched June 2009.

• Sci Hub. Twitter feed launched September 2011.

• scielo spain. Twitter feed (in Spanish) from Biblioteca Nacional de Ciencias de la Salad at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, launched March 2010

• Science 2.0. Twitter feed launched July 2009.

• ScienceOnline. Twitter feed launched August 2009.

• ScienceOpen. Twitter feed from Tibor Tscheke and Liz Allen, launched March 2013.

• Search Engine BASE. Twitter feed launched January 2011.

• SHARE. Twitter feed launched in October 2013.

• SHERPA/REF. Twitter feed.

• SHERPA Services. Twitter feed, from Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham, launched March 2010.

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

• SPARC Europe. Twitter feed launched July 2010.

• Springer Open. Twitter feed launched June 2010.

• SSRN. Twitter feed launched March 2009.

• StrathclydeOA . Twitter feed by the University of Strathclyde OA Team.

• SWORD Project. Twitter feed launched March 2009.

• Texas Digital Library. Twitter feed launched May 2009.

• TheCostOfKnowledge. Twitter feed launched February 2012.

• the Winnower. Twitter feed launched August 2012.

• Ubiquity Press. Twitter feed by Ubiquity Press team, launched December 2010.

• UCL Open Access. Twitter feed launched September 2013.

• UFScholComm. Twitter feed from the UF Libraries Scholarly Communications Office launched September 2011, moderated by Christine Fruin.

• UKCORR. Twitter feed from the UK Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR), launched March 2011.

• UKPMC. Twitter feed.

• UKOER. Twitter feed moderated by David Kernohan, launched June 2009.

• UKRepNet. Twitter feed launched July 2012.

• Unglue.it. Twitter feed launched August 2011.

• Uopen Access. Twitter feed moderated by Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals.

• VOA3R. Twitter feed for the Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository, launched September 2011.

• The Wikipedia Library. Twitter feed launched July 2013.

• Why Open Research?. Twitter feed by Erin McKiernan.

• Wiley Open Access. Twitter feed launched October 2010.

• ZENODO. Twitter feed launched March 2013.