Open Access Initiative Pathfinder
The Open Access Initiative is a world-wide movement that addresses the crisis in the costs of scholarly journals for libraries and researchers. OAI changes the way scholarly communications are published and disseminated by publishing peer-refereed articles in digital formats on the Internet and making them available to readers free of charge and free of copyright and licensing restrictions.


SPARC-Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
An action-oriented alliance of faculty and librarians focusing on finding solutions to the scholarly communication crisis by supporting partnerships that develop high-quality, competitively priced and open access electronic journals.


Create Change-Association of Research Libraries Initiative
A resource for faculty and librarians working to change the way scholarly articles are published and disseminated with the overall mission of making scholarly journals affordable. Provides the frameword and tools for local action.


Open Archives Initiative
First meeting organized in Santa Fe, 1999, and inspired by Dr. Steven Harnad's 1994 "Subversive Proposal." OAI now provides the metadata tagging standards and registry for all OAI-compliant eprint archives.


ARC Cross Archives Search Service
One of the first federated searching services based on the OAI protocol.Over 1 million metadata records from 80 data providers.
PubMed Central
An open-access archive of life sciences journals supported by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and a SPARC Leading Edge partner.


SOAN-SPARC Open Access Newsletter
A weekly newsletter dedicated to the Open Access Movement moderated by Peter Stuber, originator of the Free Online Scholarship movement, now subsumed into OAI. SOAN BLOG

PLoS-Public Library of Science
A SPARC Leading Edge partnership that provides high quality, peer-reviewed, all electronic journals in the key fields of science, technolgy, and medicine, (STM), available without charge. Curently supporting PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine.


BOAI-Budapest Open Access Initiative
A meeting of international scholars in support of open access for scholarly journal articles and a call to action to to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet.
BOAI FQA
ACRL Scholarly Communication Initiative
An ACRL initiative designed to address the scholarly communication financial crisis with goals of creating increased access to scholarly information, fostering cost-effective alternative means of publishing

EPrints.org
This Open Citation Project site provides resources for author and institutional self-archiving, EPrints software and User Handbook, lists of Open Access Archives.
Directory of Open Access Journals
This directory provides free online full text access to 1,067 high-quality scientific and scholarly journals. Another SPARC Leading Edge partnership.
United Nations World Summit
Site of the main UN Open Access Projects including the CERN Workshops on Innovatons in Scholarly Communication.

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