Title: Open access bibliography
Description: Presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (incl. 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 literature. Most sources published between 1999 and Aug. 31, 2004; a limited number of key sources published prior to 1999 also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet (approximately 78 percent of the bibliography's references have such links). The bibliography is conveniently organized into the following categories: General Works, Open Access Statements, Copyright Arrangements for Self-Archiving and Use, Open Access Journals, E-Prints, Disciplinary Archives, Institutional Archives and Repositories, Open Archives Initiative and OAI-PMH, Conventional Publisher Perspectives, Government Inquiries and Legislation, and Open Access Arrangements for Developing Countries. The publication also includes a concise overview of key concepts that are central to the open access movement.
Subjects: Bibliography, Electronic information resources, Electronic publishing, Libraries and electronic publishing, Scholarly electronic publishing, Communication in learning and scholarship, Periodicals as Topic - trends - bibliography, Publishing - trends - bibliography, Access to Information, Internet, Wetenschappelijke tijdschriften, Elektronische documenten, Open access, Communicating in learning and scholarship