The Open Access Bibliography is available at http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.pdf Two articles of India authors are included. --- JK Vijayakumar [Forwarding from Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Note that the full-text of the bibliography is now open access. --Peter.] The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals 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 literature. Most sources have been published between 1999 and August 31, 2004; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1999 are 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). http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.pdf This bibliography has been published as a printed book (ISBN 1-59407-670-7) by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). http://www.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/ ARL and the author have made the above PDF version of the bibliography freely available. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Key Open Access Concepts 1 General Works 1.1 Overviews 1.2 Analysis and Critiques 1.3 Debates and Dialogs 1.3.1 Nature Web Debate on Future E-Access to the Primary Literature 1.3.2 Nature Web Focus on Access to the Literature: The Debate Continues 1.3.3 Other 1.4 Research Studies 1.5 Other 2 Open Access Statements 2.1 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities 2.2 Bethesda Statement on Open Access 2.3 Budapest Open Access Initiative 2.4 NEAR 2.5 OECD Final Communique 2.6 Tempe Principles 2.7 Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science 2.8 Wellcome Trust Position Statement and Research Reports 2.9 World Summit on the Information Society Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action 2.10 Other 3 Copyright Arrangements for Self-Archiving and Use 3.1 General Works 3.2 Copyright Ownership and Rights 3.3 Creative Commons 3.4 Permissions Crisis 3.5 Research Studies 4 Open Access Journals 4.1 General Works 4.2 Economic Issues 4.2.1 General Works 4.2.2 BMJ Rapid Responses about "Author Pays" May Be the New Science Publishing Model 4.3 Open Access Journal Change Agents 4.3.1 SPARC 4.4 Open Access Journal Publishers and Distributors 4.4.1 BioMed Central 4.4.2 Public Library of Science 4.4.3 PubMed Central 4.4.3.1 General Works 4.4.3.2 Science Magazine dEbate on "Building a GenBank of the Published Literature" 4.4.3.3 Science Magazine dEbate on "Is a Government Archive the Best Option?" 4.4.3.4 Science Magazine dEbate on "Just a Minute, Please" 4.4.3.5 Other 4.5 Specific Open Access Journals 4.5.1 Journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals 4.5.2 Pioneering Free E-Journals Not in the DOAJ 4.5.3 Other 4.6 Research Studies 5 E-Prints 5.1 General Works 5.2 History 5.3 Research Studies 6 Disciplinary Archives 6.1 General Works 6.2 Specific Archives and Projects 6.2.1 arXiv 6.2.2 NASA Astrophysics Data System 6.2.3 RePEc 6.2.4 Other 7 Institutional Archives and Repositories 7.1 General Works 7.2 E-Print Archives 7.2.1 General Works 7.2.2 Specific Archives and Projects 7.2.2.1 ePrints-UK 7.2.2.2 SHERPA 7.2.2.3 Other 7.3 Repositories with Diverse Materials 7.3.1 General Works 7.3.2 Specific Repositories and Projects 7.3.2.1 DAEDALUS 7.3.2.2 DSpace 7.3.2.3 eScholarship 7.3.2.4 Fedora 7.3.2.5 OSU Knowledge Bank 7.3.2.6 Other 7.4 Electronic Theses and Dissertations 8 Open Archives Initiative and OAI-PMH 8.1 General Works 8.2 Specific Data or Service Providers and Projects 8.2.1 AmericanSouth.org 8.2.2 Arc 8.2.3 Kepler 8.2.4 OAIster 8.2.5 OpCit 8.2.6 Open Archives Forum 8.2.7 Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Project 8.2.8 Other 8.3 Research Studies 9 Conventional Publisher Perspectives 10 Government Inquires and Legislation 10.1 European Commission Study 10.2 Sabo Bill 10.3 U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry 10.4 U.S. House Appropriations Committee Recommendations 10.5 Other 11 Open Access Arrangements for Developing Countries 11.1 General Works 11.2 Free or Reduced Cost Access 11.2.1 AGORA 11.2.2 HINARI 11.2.3 Other 11.3 SciELO About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/