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Webliography

Webliography

Starting Points

Framing the Issue: Open Accesshttp://www.arl.org/bm~doc/framing_issue_may04.pdf

This resource guide from the Association of Research Libraries looks at open access from a library point of view, examining the economics of scholarly publishing and US copyright law trends in addition to providing a general open access overview. It includes links to key open access resources.

(Mis)Leading Open Access Mythshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/myths/?myth=all

BioMed Central counters the arguments used by conventional publishers to oppose open access. The sources of the arguments are noted and the responses provide links to relevant documents

Open Access Overview: Focusing on Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research Articles and Their Preprintshttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

If you want an overview of open access concepts, there is no better guide than this one by Peter Suber, a noted open access expert. Clearly and carefully written, it boils down an enormous amount of information about a very complex topic, and it is rich with links to more in-depth information. Even more impressive is his "A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access" (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm), which provides the most concise summary imaginable.

Open-Access Publication of Medical and Scientific Research: A Public Library of Science Background Paper http://www.plos.org/downloads/oa_background.pdf

This document introduces the reader to the concept and practice of open access journal publishing. It touches on various aspects such as the significance of open access, its operational mechanism, and its relationship with scholarly societies' constituents.

Self-Archiving FAQhttp://www.eprints.org/self-faq/

This FAQ from the Budapest Open Access Initiative provides detailed information about "self-archiving," the inclusion of e-prints on scholars home pages or their deposit in digital archives and repositories. It includes a lengthy rebuttal of common objections to the concept of self-archiving.

Bibliographies

Effect of Open Access and Downloads ("Hits") on Citation Impact: A Bibliography of Studieshttp://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

This bibliography by Steve Hitchcock chronicles research studies about the relationship between citation impact and the free availability of scholarly articles. It also identifies Web tools for measuring citation impact. As the author indicates, it is "a focused bibliography, on the relationship between impact and access." The bibliography "does not attempt to cover citation impact, or other related topics such as open access, more generally, although some key papers in these areas are listed as jump-off points for wider study." Although it needs further confirmation, it appears from the included studies that "open access increases impact."

Online Research Communication and Open Accesshttp://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html

Dr. Stevan Harnard is a trailblazer in advancing open access. This Web site is a bibliography of his open access writings over the years. Most of the articles are freely available as e-prints. The site also links to the preliminary results of a survey of users and non-users of two e-print archives (arXiv.org, and Cogprints).

Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journalshttp://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm

This bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. "presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly ...