FAQs about OA

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This is a list of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) about open access and OA-related projects, policies, and organizations. It's not a place to start a new FAQ, merely to list existing FAQs.

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A

• Aldelphi Charter FAQ. For the Adelphi Charter, from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

• Author Choice FAQ. For the Author Choice hybrid OA journal program of the American Physiological Society.

B

• Budapest Open Access Initiative FAQ. From the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

C

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research OA policy FAQ. From the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

• Cancer Research UK OA policy FAQ. From Cancer Research UK.

• Cape Town Declaration FAQ. For the Cape Town Open Education Declaration.

• Chemical Information Retrieval. From getcheminfo.

• Citizendium FAQ. From Citizendium.

D

• Data Webs FAQ. From Robert Grossman.

• DOAJ FAQ. From the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

• DRIVER FAQs. A menu of four FAQs from DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research): one on DRIVER itself, one on the DRIVER Guidelines, one on open access, and one on repositories and DRIVER.

E

• eGranary Digital Library FAQ. From the eGranary Digital Library.

• eIFL Direct FAQ. From eIFL ( Electronic Information for Libraries).

• E-Print Network FAQ. From the E-Print Network project of the US Department of Energy.

• From the European Commission:
  • Digital Libraries Initiative FAQ. From the Digital Libraries Initiative.
  • EC Approach to the Publishing Industry FAQ. Not revised since September 2005.
  • EC Research FAQ. From EC Research, which is not the same thing as the EC Research Directorate-General.
  • Scientific information in the digital age FAQ. On the EC Communication on access to scientific information in the digital age, February 15, 2007.

• Ezclopedia FAQ. From Ezclopedia.

F

• Fedora FAQ. From the Fedora Commons.

• Free Cultural Works FAQ. From the Definition of Free Cultural Works.

• Free to Read FAQ. For the "Free to Read" hybrid OA journal program of the American Physical Society.

• FRPAA FAQ. For the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006. The FAQ accompanied the bill's introduction in May 2006 and was never updated.
  • FRPAA FAQ. For the 2009 reintroduction of FRPAA. From the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. July 9, 2009.

G

• From Google:
  • Google Book Search FAQ. From Google Book Search.
  • Google Scholar FAQ for Searchers. From Google Scholar.
  • Google Scholar FAQ for Publishers. From Google Scholar.

I

• ITech FAQ. From ITech.

J

• Opening up Access to Research Results FAQ. From Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Research Councils UK (RCUK), Council for the Central Laboratory for the Research Councils (CLRC), and the Research Libraries Network (RLN). Version 1.1, August 2005.

M

• Million Book Project FAQ. From the Universal Digital Library.

• MRC OA policy FAQ. From the UK Medical Research Council.

N

• Newfound Press FAQ. For the Newfound Press from the University of Tennessee.

• NIH Public Access Policy FAQ. For the Public Access Policy of the US National Institutes of Health.

O

• OATP FAQ. From the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP).

• open-access.net FAQ. From the information platform open-access.net

• Open Data Commons FAQ. From the Open Data Commons.

• OpenAIRE FAQ. From OpenAIRE.

• OpenDepot FAQ. From OpenDepot.

• OpenDOAR FAQ. From the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR).

• OpenLOCKSS FAQ. From OpenLOCKSS.

P

• Panton Principles FAQ. From the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science.

• Philica FAQ. From Philica.

• Public Library of Science FAQ. From the Public Library of Science.

• PubMed Central FAQ. From PubMed Central.

R

• Royal Society EXiS Open Choice FAQ. For the EXiS Open Choice hybrid OA journal program of the Royal Society.

S

• Sage Open FAQ. For the Sage Open hybrid OA program from Sage Publications.

• Science Commons FAQ. From Science Commons.

• SCOAP3 FAQ for U.S. Libraries. From the SCOAP3 project at CERN.

• Self-Archiving FAQ. From Stevan Harnad.

T

• The European Library FAQ. From The European Library.

U

• University of California Open Access Policy Proposal FAQ. For the UC OA policy proposal.

• UTOPIA FAQ. For the UTOPIA project at the University of Texas.

• From the Wellcome Trust:
  • Open Access Policy FAQ for Authors. For the OA policy.
  • Open Access Policy FAQ for Publishers. For the OA policy.
  • Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation Project FAQ. For the Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation Project.

• Wikimedia Foundation FAQ. From the Wikimedia Foundation.

• WorldWideScience.org FAQ. From WorldWideScience.org.