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All of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck
Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's
CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research.
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
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Creating a global knowledge network
Considerations on how to build a knowledge network for research communication and on its potential
impact, by P. Ginsparg, one of the founders of ArXiv.
http://lanl.arxiv.org/blurb/pg01unesco.html
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First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights
Introducing the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the
private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to
be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain.
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_6/kelsey/
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Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research
A group challenging the power of established scientific journals says legislation will be
introduced to make the results of all federally financed research available to the public.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/26/politics/26LIBR.html?ex=1057638190&ei=1&en=24bfe95d73....
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Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing
A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic
communication, its impact and consequences.
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/eworld.html
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Online or Invisible?
Article by Steve Lawrence appeared in Nature (2001) analyzing the citation rate of online and off
line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited, free online availability
substantially increases a paper's impact.
http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
New electronic and printed resources about scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.
Issues on copyright, academic impact, economical aspects.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm
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Scholars Under Siege: The Scholarly Communication Crisis
An overview of current issues in scientific communication, exploring why scholars are losing
control of a system that should be theirs and that is more and more controlled by publishers,
chiefly through their pricing and copyright policies.
http://www.createchange.org/faculty/issues/quick.html
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Rights Metadata for Open archiving
(RoMEO) A project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee to investigate the rights
issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK academic community under the Open
Archive Initiative's protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI). Legal issues, surveys, links to
related discussions.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html
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Self-Archiving FAQ
Answers to frequently asked questions about self archiving including what and how. Has a "I
worry about..." set of questions too with advice and answers to issues.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
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American Scientist Forum on Open Access
Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous
since 1998.
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
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Information Liberation
Examines radical alternatives for replacing mass media with network media, abolishing intellectual
property, and changing social institutions that create a demand for surveillance. Free full text in
html and pdf.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/index.html
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Nature Debates: E-Access
Online forum hosted by Nature Online concerning the impact of the web on the future of publishing
and the dissemination of scientific information.
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html
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Public Library of Science
A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical
literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free
access online journals and eprints archives.
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
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Create Change
A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. Main issues concern
subscription prices for scholarly journals and help for journals willing to find publishing options
better suited to their academic missions.
http://www.createchange.org/
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Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement
Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players
in the free online scholarship initiative.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm
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Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives
How to free access to scientific literature: papers by one of the leaders of the open archives
initiative.
http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html
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Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing
An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future.
http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/
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Free Science Campaign
An early (1998-2000) initiative for free online scholarship from Stefano Ghirlanda. The campaign
focused on lessening the restrictions of copyright agreements for scientific literature.
http://ethology.intercult.su.se/freescience/
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Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
(FOS) News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make
it available to readers free of charge. Newsletter, forum, FAQ and a comprehensive directory on
electronic archives.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
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For Whom the Gate Tolls?
How and why to free the refereed research literature online through author/institution
self-archiving, now - a manifesto by Stevan Harnad.
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm
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Eprints.org
Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution
self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving.
http://www.eprints.org/
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Electronic Dissemination of Thesis and Dissertations
UNESCO is examining the possibilities of formulating an international strategy for creating and
disseminating electronic theses and dissertations.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/etd/index.html
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Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library
An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation,
facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'.
http://www.bireme.br/bvs/por/ideclar.htm
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Declaration of Havana - Towards Equitable Access to Health Information
A statement issued in Havana on April 27, 2001, by the participants in the Second Regional
Coordination Meeting of the Virtual Health Library and the Fifth Regional Congress on Health
Sciences Information. One of the strongest public statements in support of open access archives
philosophy.
http://www.bireme.br/crics5/I/declara.htm
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Budapest Open Access Initiative
Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic
fields freely available on the Internet.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
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