Open Access Resources

Presentations:

• Slides from presentation that Heather Joseph, from SPARC, gave at the Drew Faculty Seminar

Books

• Peter Suber, Open Access (MIT Press, 2012)
• Walt Crawford, Open Access: What You Need to Know Now (American Library Association, 2011) Ebook through Drew's Ebrary Subscription

Articles:

• Kathleen Fitzpatrick. "Openness, value, and scholarly societies: The Modern Language Association model," College and Research Libraries News, vol. 73 no. 11 (December 2012) p 650-65.
  http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/11/650.full

Websites:

• Open Access Pamphlet from SPARC
  A succinct resource in PDF.
• Open Access Overview by Peter Suber of Harvard
  An introduction by one of the movers and shakers of OA.
• Open Access page from the Scholarly Publication and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
  Definitions, models, and news
• Open-Access Journals Break Barriers to Academic Freedom - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher EducationArticle from the Chronicle Of Higher Education, February 23, 2010
• A field guide to misunderstandings about open accessPeter Suber debunks Open Access myths.
• Open access policy adopted at Princeton
  Article from The Daily Princetonian about Princeton's new open access copyright policy for its faculty publications. 
• About the Harvard's Open Access Repository - ROARMAP
  The Harvard repository and Harvard's Open Access policy for faculty deposit of electronic copies of their works. 
• Resources for Authors
  From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition 
• Standing Up for Open Access
  Inside Higher Ed- An article on the response of MIT faculty to an SAE policy, and how it challenged SAE policy.
• How Open Is It?
  Draft Resource from SPARC, the Public Library of Science, and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association categorizing degrees of Open Access.
• What you can do to help
  From the Budapest Open Access Initiative - suggestions for furthering open access to scholarly work.
• Campus Open Access Policies (SPARC)
  Information about setting a campus-wide open access policy similar to Harvard, Princeton, and Oberlin...
• Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)
  OASIS is building a 'sourcebook' collecting information about open access sorted by audience: researchers, students, administrators, librarians and the general public.

(Many resources and descriptions on this list have been taken from the The Scholarly Communication and Open Access Library Guide maintained by Eleta Exline at the University of New Hampshire Library http://libraryguides.unh.edu/openaccess)