More Open Access Resources

Blog, Conferences, Discussion List, LISTSERV, Newsletter

American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum, started August 1998.
American Scientist Open Access Forum is the LISTSERV that debates Open Access. It was started and is managed by Stevan Harnad.

SCHOLCOMM is a email discussion list, sponsored by ACRL, that provides a forum for the examination and analysis of topics such as open access to scholarly information, new models of scholarly publishing, increasing journal prices, copyright law and policy, that impact the access of scholars, students, and the general public to scholarly information. This site tells how to subscribe and unsubscribe to the discussion list.

ACRL. (2004). SCHOLCOMM Discussion List. Retrieved Aug. 10, 2004, from
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholcommdiscussion.htm

SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) is a newletter about the Open Acess Movement. This site tells how to subscribe and unsubscribe to the Newsletter and to the Forum. You have to sign up to receive this free newsletter by email. The Newsletter is one of the best ways to find out what open access is all about. View archives and current copies at:

ARL. (2003). About the SPARC Open Access Newsletter and the Open Access Forum. Retrieved August 10, 2004, from http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/index.html.

Suber, Peter. (2004). SPARC Open Access Newsletter and Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter Archive. Retrieved Aug. 10, 2004, from http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm

The SOAN Blog is monitered by Suber and, along with the SPARC Newsletter, is one of the best places to go to get readable and current information about open access and its progress in changing the formats for publishing scholarly communication.

Suber, Peter. (2004). Open Access News: News from the open access movement.
Retrieved Aug. 10, 2004, from http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Peter Suber is Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Senior Researcher at SPARC, editor of SPARC Open Access Newsletter and Blog.

Conferences and Symposia on OAI and Scholarly Communications

ARL:Create Change. (2004). Conferences and Symposia. Retrieved Aug. 10, 2004, from http://www.arl.org/create/resources/conferences.html
A page of links to past conferences and symposia on scholarly communication topics. deadlink

Lund [Sweden] University Libraries. (2004). Second Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund 26 - 28 April 2004: Towards a New Publishing Environment. Retrieved on Aug. 10, 2004, from http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2004/

Suber, Peter. (2004). Conferences and Workshops Related to The Open Access Movement. Retrieved Aug. 10, 2004, from http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm
A page of links to past and future conferences and symposia on scholarly communication topics.

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