Lists maintained by others

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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• 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 the OAD lists of Publishers of OA books and OA book business models.
  • Also see Textbooks below.

C

• Calls
  • Calls for papers. See the tag library for the "oa.cfp" tag from the Open Access Tracking Project.
  • Calls for tenders (grant proposals). See the tag library for the "oa.cft" tag from the Open Access Tracking Project.

• 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 Open Access 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).

L

• Licensing terms models: ONIX-PL Publications License format, with a dictionary and three license examples as of 2017

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.
  • Open Textbook Library
  • 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.)