Sherpa-JULIET provides information on research funding agencies’ policies on open access from around the world. These policies apply to deposit of published articles in open access repositories, publishing in open access journals and the archiving of research data.
Sherpa-FACT is a service that provides information and guidance to researchers on whether a journal in which they wish to publish complies with Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust Open Access policies, and offers advice on available options.
DART-Europe ist eine Vereinigung von Bibliotheken und Bibliothekskonsortien, die gemeinsam das Ziel verfolgen, den weltweiten Zugang zu europäischen Dissertationen zu verbessern. DART-Europe wird unterstützt von LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche). Außerdem ist DART-Europe die Europäische Arbeitsgruppe der Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). Die DART-Europe Partner stellen Wissenschaftlern ein zentrales europaweites Portal für die Suche nach Online-Dissertationen zur Verfügung und sie beteiligen sich aktiv an Entwicklungen zu Online-Dissertationen. DART-Europe bietet seinen Partnern Forum und Netzwerk zu Themen rund um Online-Dissertationen und kann vielleicht sogar die Möglichkeit zu kooperativ finanzierten Projekten eröffnen, die dann ein weiterer Schritt zur Realisierung von DART-Europe’s Vision für Online-Dissertationen sein können.
Established in 2003, e-LIS is an internationaldigital repository for Library and Information Science (LIS). It has grown to include a team of volunteer editors and support for 22 languages. The development of an international LIS network has been stimulated by the extension of the Open Access concept to LIS works and facilitated by the dissemination of material within the LIS community. These are some of the reasons for the success of e-LIS.
In a few years, e-LIS has been established as the largest international open repository in the field of library and information science.
The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective
If this is unstoppable, then whatever the timescale the alarm bell has to ring and businesses (not just publishers — including universities) have to accept that change is inevitable and plan quite carefully to deal with it.
Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4381 journals in the directory.
Doug Clow’s notes from Researcher 2.0 event - sponsored by the Technology Enhanced Learning research cluster at the Open University, and the OLnet project.