Useful Links

COAR

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is an association of repository initiatives which aims to enhance greater visibility and application of research outputs through a global network of Open Access repositories.

Creative Commons (EN)

Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

DART-Europe

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation e.V. (DINI)

German Initative for Networked Information (DINI) supporting the development of modern information and communication technology.

Directory of Open Access Books (OADB)

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of OAPEN Foundation.

DOAJ

The service of the the Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

DRIVER

DRIVER is a Euroepan Union initiative that was a precursor to OpenAIRE, that maintains an open Access search service.

EC Open Access Pilot (2008)

Text of the Open Access Pilot Project started by the European Commission in August 2008.

ENCES

ENCES (European Network for Copyright in support of Education and Science) is an EU-wide network of organizations and individuals in science and education who share the view that copyright is a socially valuable construct and that the primary objective of copyright is to promote the progress of science, education, and culture as public goods.

EOS - Enabling Open Scholarship

EOS is an organisation for senior institutional managers who have an interest in, and wish to help develop thinking on, strategies for promoting open scholarship to the academy as a whole and to society at large.

ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access

Statement and Guidelines of the European Research Council in support of Open Access (December 2006, December 2007)

Informationsplattform open-access.net

The open-access.net platform aims to meet the growing demand for information on the subject of Open Access (OA) (in Germany and Switzerland).

JULIET

This SHERPA Service provides a summary of funder's policies on Open Access to the research results from the projects they fund. This is integrated with the RoMEO service, so that JULIET tells authors what funders want them to do: RoMEO tells them if publishers will let them do it.

LIBER

LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche - Association of European Research Libraries) is the main research libraries network in Europe.

NECOBELAC

The NECOBELAC project aims to establish a network of collaboration between European countries (EU) and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), to spread knowledge on the methods of scientific writing and publishing and on appropriate tools for the open access dissemination of information for the protection of public health.

OAPEN

The Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

OASPA

OASPA offers a forum for bringing together the entire community of Open Access journal publishers.

OpenAIRE

OpenAIRE is an European project aiming at building support structures for researchers in depositing FP7 research publications through the establishment of the European Helpdesk and the outreach to all European member states through the operation and collaboration of 27 National Open Access Liaison Offices.

OpenAIREplus

OpenAIREplus, funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme, will work in tandem with OpenAIRE, extending the mission further to facilitate access to the entire Open Access scientific production of the European Research Area, providing cross-links from publications to data and funding schemes. This large-scale project brings together 41 pan-European partners, including three cross-disciplinary research communities.

OpenDOAR

This SHERPA Service is the authoritative and quality assured Directory of academic Open Access Repositories.

PEER

PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) is a collaboration between publishers, repositories and researchers, investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of European research.

Repositories Support Project (EN)

The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is a 5.5 year JISC-funded initiative contributing to building repository capacity, knowledge and skills within UK higher education institutions. Through providing guidance and advice it benefits the whole of the UK sector resulting in the wider take-up and development of institutional repositories in HEIs.

RoMEO

This SHERPA Service offers summaries of publishers Copyright Transfer Agreements, allowing authors to decide whether or not they can archive their articles online.

SHERPA Guidance for Authors on Open Access

Guidance and information for authors on Open Access archiving.

SPARC Europe

SPARC Europe aims to promote an open scholarly communication system in Europe.

SPARC Europe on Copyright (EN)

SPARC Europe aims to promote an open scholarly communication system in Europe and discusses copyright as a way to ‘free up the content of scholarly research’.

Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP)

The SOAP project aims to deliver to the European Commission, publishers, libraries and research communities a description and analysis of models of open access publishing, so that these key players may ascertain which model, or combination and variation of models, will enable them to make a smooth transition to open access publishing.

Acceso Abierto

The AccesoAbierto.net web site is the main channel for disseminating the progress of our research group “Acceso Abierto a la ciencia” in Spain.

Acesso Livre

Official OA website devoted to OA dissemination in Portugal.

ANKOS OA website

The website on Open Access and Institutional Repositories maintained by ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium).

Blimunda

The Blimunda Project was started in the context of the Open Access Scientific Repository of Portugal (RCAAP).
It is an initiative supported and funded by the National Foundation for Scientific Computing (FCCN), and it's being developed by the Documentation and Library Division of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon.

Creative Commons France

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in French).

Creative Commons Greece

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in Greek).

Creative Commons Italy

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in Italian).

Creative Commons Portugal

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in Portoguese).

Creative Commons Spain

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in Spanish).

CRUI Open Access working group

The conference of the rectors of Italian Universities established a working group on Open Access to support the implementation of the Berlin Declaration in Italy. Members of the group are librarians, professors, and other people committed to the promotion of the OA movement.

HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne)

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research papers, whether they are published or not, and for PhD dissertations. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. HAL contains almost 200 000 full-text documents.

Les archives ouvertes pour les etablissements d'enseignement superieur et de recherche

The site informs academics, higher education and research institutions wishing to open or use a repository, and more generally to join Open Access initiatives.

Luso-Brazilian directory

Directory of repositories and open access journals.

MELIBEA

The aim of this directory of institutional open access policies is to identify and analyze the existing policies that encourage, request or require open access to scholarly outputs that arise from projects, in whole or in part, supported by public funds.

Open Access in France. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in France (2010).

Open Access in Greece. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in Greece (2009).

Open Access in Italy. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in France (2009).

Open Access in Portugal. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in Portugal (2009).

Open Access in Spain. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in France (2009).

Open Access in Turkey. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in Turkey (2009).

Open Coursware (TR)

National website devoted to open coursware managed by the Turkish Academy of Sciences.

Openaccess.gr (EL)

Openaccess.gr is an online platform providing updated and comprehensive information on Open access issues and latest trends, Open access infrastructure currently being developed by the National Documentation Centre (ΕΚΤ).

Openarchives.gr

Openarchives.gr is a federated search engine for the Greek digital libraries and institutional repositories, providing access to Open Access documents. The openarchives.gr aggregator is hosted, managed and developed by the National Documentation Centre.

PLEIADI

PLEIADI is the Italian portal on OA, giving access to Italian scientific open access literature made available on institutional and disciplinary repositories, and on OA journals.

Policies for the development of OA in Southern Europe

Website of the seminar “Policies for the development of OA in Southern Europe” held in Granada (Spain), May 12-14.

RCAAP

RCAAP portal aims to collect, aggregate and index Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories.

RECOLECTA

RECOLECTA is a platform collecting all national scientific repositories, offering tools and services to repository managers and researchers as well.

SciELO

SciELO is an electronic virtual library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals.

Wiki OA

Official wiki on Open Access, giving general information on OA and offering some overviews on the ongoing activities in Italy.

Creative Commons France

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in French).

HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne)

Les archives ouvertes pour les etablissements d'enseignement superieur et de recherche

The site informs academics, higher education and research institutions wishing to open or use a repository, and more generally to join Open Access initiatives.

Open Access in France. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in France (2010).

Creative Commons Greece

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in Greek).

Open Access in Greece. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in Greece (2009).

Openaccess.gr (EL)

Openarchives.gr

Creative Commons Italy

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in Italian).

CRUI Open Access working group

Open Access in Italy. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in France (2009).

PLEIADI

PLEIADI is the Italian portal on OA, giving access to Italian scientific open access literature made available on institutional and disciplinary repositories, and on OA journals.

Wiki OA

Official wiki on Open Access, giving general information on OA and offering some overviews on the ongoing activities in Italy.

Acesso Livre

Official OA website devoted to OA dissemination in Portugal.

Blimunda

Creative Commons Portugal

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in Portoguese).

Luso-Brazilian directory

Directory of repositories and open access journals.

Open Access in Portugal. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in Portugal (2009).

RCAAP

RCAAP portal aims to collect, aggregate and index Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories.

SciELO

SciELO is an electronic virtual library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals.

Acceso Abierto

The AccesoAbierto.net web site is the main channel for disseminating the progress of our research group “Acceso Abierto a la ciencia” in Spain.

Creative Commons Spain

Local website on Creative Commons Licenses (in Spanish).

MELIBEA

Open Access in Spain. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in France (2009).

RECOLECTA

RECOLECTA is a platform collecting all national scientific repositories, offering tools and services to repository managers and researchers as well.

ANKOS OA website

The website on Open Access and Institutional Repositories maintained by ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium).

Open Access in Turkey. A State of the Art Report

Report on the state of the art of Open Access in Turkey (2009).

Open Coursware (TR)

National website devoted to open coursware managed by the Turkish Academy of Sciences.

SELL 10th meeting (2010)

Presentation of the state of the art of OA in South European Countries

SELL 4th meeting (2004)

Discussion on Open Access, presentation given by Bülent Karasözen on "Open Access, Institutional Repositories, SPARC"

SELL 5th meeting (2005)

Discussion on Institutional Repositories and Open Access as reported in the minutes

SELL 9th meeting (2009)

Discussion on Open Access Developments in Southern European Countries

MEDOANET 2012