Open Access

American Scientist Open Access Forum

This forum focuses mostly on issues of interest to the research community.

· The complete archive of the discussions on Open Access over the last six years can be found at: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html 

· To join this discussion forum register at: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html

SPARC Open Access Forum

This forum focuses mostly on issues of interest to the library and publishing communities. 

· The archive of discussions can be found at: https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html

· To join this discussion forum register at: http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/#forum

SPARC also publishes the Open Access Newsletter, edited by Peter Suber. The archive is available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm and you can register for the Newsletter at that site.

SPARC has recently published a brochure introducing Open Access for researchers. It is available at:

http://www.createchange.org/resources/OpenAccess.pdf

Other Open Access resources mentioned in the questionnaire

List of scholarly journals showing which permit self-archiving of articles published within them:

http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php

UK House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee Recommendations:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm

US Government Recommendations:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&db_id=cp108&r_n=hr636.108&sel=TOC_338641&