"A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD will make it easier for users, especially newcomers, to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA." Founded by Peter Suber and Robin Peek.

NSF-funded project managed by Purdue. Simulation tools, presentations/classes, community.

From their homepage, " The Publishing Research Consortium is a group of associations and publishers, which supports global research into scholarly communication in order to enable evidence-based discussion. Our objective is to support work that is scientific and pro-scholarship. Overall, we aim to promote an understanding of the role of publishing and its impact on research and teaching." Publish whitepapers and other papers looking at peer review, open access, etc.

Resources from the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication.

University of Minnesota's Schol Comm wiki for librarians.

University of Minnesota's faculty-oriented schol comm site.

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.

Results of a nationwide census of institutional repositories in U.S. academic institutions.

"A considerable portion of the scholarly record is born digital, and some scholarship is produced in digital formats that have no physical, in-the-hand counterparts. The proliferation of digital scholarship raises serious and pressing issues about how to organize, access, and preserve it in perpetuity. The response of academic institutions has been to build and deploy institutional repositories (IRs) to manage the digital scholarship their learning communities produce."

An international partnership to build a large-scale public infrastructure for research information across Europe.

Research report on purchasing preferences of librarians. Identifies key factors prompting substitution of OA materials for journal subscriptions.

Proceedings from the "Improving Access..." forum. Sessions on rights management and university publishing are particularly relevant.

University of California's Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC). Their work has included a resolution on scholarly communication

From the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley. "The motivation for the project reported here was to assess the criteria by which faculty decide when and in what venues to publish or otherwise communicate the results of scholarly research."Add & Goto PennTags

Chapters from the book Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects (N. Jacobs, editor), Chandos Publishing: Oxford, 2006. Links available at eprints.org

Survey of UK institutions.

By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Discusses what an IR is, and looks at the relationship between IRs and the open access movement.

"The Office of Scholarly Communication facilitates internal partnerships among the UC libraries, faculty, and administration and, where appropriate, in concert with entities outside UC." Nice use of faculty champions/testimonials.

Compiled and written by Peter Suber. Also includes function for searching the newsletters, the OA blog and other Suber writings on OA.

From their mission statement: " Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement, these publishers join forces and participate in an online presence with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their intellectual or economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices. Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important components of the project."

Advocacy site for self-archive initiatives.

The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between 1990 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet.Written by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

"A multidisciplinary problem-centered group with a broad concern for all dimensions of contemporary scholarly communication. These include, but are not limited to, the economics of publishing, the evolution of scholarly disciplines and its effect on publishing, information policy, copyright, the interactions of academic reward systems and publishing, and new communication technologies and their potential for providing relief from the crisis in scholarly communication. Through speakers, discussion groups, sharing of literature and news notices, and an electronic bulletin board, the Working Group hopes to stimulate discussion on these issues and, it is hoped, to be a catalyst for papers on scholarly communication, grant proposals and collaborative research."

Rutgers' scholarly communication page. Good use of institutional and library strategic plans in explanation. 

BC libraries' scholarly communications site with a mission to, "keep users informed of and to garner user input regarding developments in all aspects of scholarly communication."

"Dedicated to fostering open access to quality information in support of learning, scholarship, research and patient care."

"Provides commentary on open access, scholarly electronic publishing and digital culture issues."

"Running list of research papers, editorial appointments, and other content and actions results in freely available scholarship by researchers at CalTech. Created by CalTech librarians.

"Reflects the efforts of the Scholarly Communication program to create new models for scholarly exchange that build on the widespread adoption of digital technologies and networking for research, teaching, and learning. At the same time, the program works to improve the traditional systems of scholarly exchange and improve the purchasing power of libraries and the terms and conditions under which content is made available. Thus, issues of copyright, intellectual property, journal costs, library budgets, and similar questions all affect the ability of research institutions to provide access to scholarly information.

Cornell University Library scholarly communication website. "The purposes of this Web page are (a) to inform Cornell faculty of some of the key issues that drive the debates over scholarly communication, and (b) to suggest action that faculty might consider to support needed changes."

"ALPSP serves, represents and strengthens the community of not-for-profit publishers, demonstrating their essential role in the future of international academic and professional communication."