The links below provide a starting place for exploring the open access landscape.
The Basics
- Open Access Network
The open-access.net platform provides comprehensive information on the subject of Open Access (OA) and offers practical advice on its implementation. Developed collaboratively by the Freie Universität Berlin and the Universities of Goettingen, Konstanz, and Bielefeld. The information page brings together essential information on OA.
- SPARC: Open Access
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is a major advocate for open systems for research and education that enable everyone, everywhere to access, contribute to, and benefit from the knowledge that shapes our world. Their open access page (and the rest of their site) provides a starting place for understanding the OA policy landscape.
Further Reading
- Martin Paul Eves, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge UP, 2014)
An overview of many of the different factors at play in scholarly communication in the humanities.
- Literature on Open Access (Open Access Network)
A collection of more than 400 references from the Open Access Networks information pages and compiled in their Zotero library.
- Open Access Collection (The Scholarly Communication Notebook)
Materials about open access to scholarly literature, including articles, books, chapters, reports, conference proceedings and presentations.
- Peter Suber, Open Access (MIT Press, 2012)
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.
