| 1. American Scientist Forum on Open Access |
| Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous since 1998. |
| http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/septemb... |
| 2. Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing |
| A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic communication, its impact and consequences. |
| http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/eworld.ht... |
| 3. Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities |
| All of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research. |
| http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berli... |
| 4. 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. |
| http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ |
| 5. 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. |
| http://www.createchange.org/ |
| 6. Creating a global knowledge network |
| Considerations on how to build a knowledge network for research communication and on its potential impact, by P. Ginsparg, one of the founders of ArXiv. |
| http://lanl.arxiv.org/blurb/pg01unesco.html |
| 7. Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library |
| An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'. |
| http://www.bireme.br/bvs/por/ideclar.htm |
| 8. Eprints.org |
| Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving. |
| http://www.eprints.org/ |
| 9. First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights |
| Introducing the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain. |
| http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_6/ke... |
| 10. 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. |
| http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ |
