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- American Scientist Forum on Open Access - American Scientist Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous since 1998.
amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
- 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.
www.createchange.org
- 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.
www.bireme.br/crics5/I/declara.htm
- Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library - An initiative aiming to construct a Virtual Health Library 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'.
www.bireme.br/bvs/por/ideclar.htm
- Droits d'auteur - Appel national - A public statement from Frances Académie des Sciences (December 6, 2001) calling on the European Commission not to apply ordinary copyright rules to scientific publications for which the authors seek no payment. The public statement includes a web form for members of the public to add their signatures.
www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/DA
- Electronic dissemination of thesis and dissertations - UNESCO is examining the possibilities of formulating an international strategy for creating and disseminating electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
www.unesco.org/webworld/etd/index.html
- eprints.org - Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free software for self-archiving.
eprints.org
- 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.
www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm
- 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.
www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos
- Free Science Campaign - An early (1998-2000) FOS initiative from Stefano Ghirlanda. The campaign focused on lessening the restrictions of copyright agreements for scientific literature.
ethology.intercult.su.se/freescience
- 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.
www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/index.html
- 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.
www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html
- Peter Suber, "Guide to the FOS Movement" - Guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship movement.
www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm
- Public Library of Science - The Public Library of Science is 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.
www.publiclibraryofscience.org
- Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing - An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future.
www.arl.org/scomm/subversive
- 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.
www.eprints.org/self-faq
- Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives - How to free access to scientific literature - Papers by one of the leaders of the Open Archive Initiative.
cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html
- 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.
www.soros.org/openaccess
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