Open Access (Organizations)

Open Access Sites:

Signal Hill Signal Hill: European partnership for academic publishing aiming to create a community of practice for organisations engaged in electronic academic publishing. Directory of open access projects, initiatives and electronic archives by country. (Open Access) http://www.signal-hill.org Center for the Public Domain Center for the Public Domain: A philanthropic organization funding projects (grant making, original research, conferences, and collaborative programs) to enhance american public domain, including free digital content and efforts to counteract recent trends in copyright and patent law. (Open Access) http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/ The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: SPARC. Consortium of universities, research libraries, and organizations. Aims to enhance broad and cost-effective access to peer-reviewed scholarship. (Open Access) http://www.arl.org/sparc/home/index.asp?page=0 Open Society Institute Open Society Institute: OSI. Promotes the development and maintenance of open societies around the world through an array of activities dealing with educational, social, legal, and health care reform. (Open Access) http://www.soros.org/osi.html International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: INASP. Its mission is to enhance the flow of information within and between countries, especially those with less developed systems of publication and dissemination. (Open Access) http://www.inasp.org.uk/ International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication: ICAAP. Technological support for the delivery of scholarly content. Develops protocols for the delivery of scholarly content, provides software for journal management and publication, hosts a database of free scholarly journals and resources. (Open Access) http://www.icaap.org/ Electronic Society for Social Scientists Electronic Society for Social Scientists: ELSSS. A non-profit society dedicated to the production of low-cost electronic scholarly journals in the social sciences, particularly in economics. Its journals are not free, but they do pay authors and referees, let authors keep the copyright in their a (Open Access) http://www.elsss.org.uk/ Public Library of Science Public Library of Science: PLoS. 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. (Open Access) http://www.plos.org/