Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
... a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. It questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier, and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google. [https://paywallthemovie.com/]
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (Full Movie) CC BY 4.0 from Paywall The Movie on Vimeo.
Provides a suite of open licenses that enable authors to grant selected rights to users.
The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) funded by the Governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States Department of State, presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information in 158 countries worldwide.
"Benefits of Open Access Journals: Open Access stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse."
"Open Access" explained by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: SPARC
Created by SPARC in conjunction with PLOS and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), the HowOpenIsIt? Open Access Guide standardizes Open Access terminology in an easily understandable, comprehensive resource.
OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration. As a collaboration tool, OSF helps research teams work on projects privately or make the entire project publicly accessible for broad dissemination. As a workflow system, OSF enables connections to the many products researchers already use, streamlining their process and increasing efficiency.
A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship maintained by the OA community.
List of open access resources from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
Provides a list of open access institutional and disciplinary repositories worldwide.
Provides a list of institutional and funder mandates, with links to the repositories and the policies.
Search for research funders' open access policies.
Provides easy access to publisher policies on archiving articles on the web and in institutional repositories.
SPARC is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education. SPARC empowers people to solve big problems and make new discoveries through the adoption of policies and practices that advance Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education.
The Center for Open Science is a non-profit technology organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia with a mission to "increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research." They maintain the Open Science Framework (OSF) to help researchers conduct research more rigorously, and manage and share their work more openly.
Promoting integrity in research and its publication.
COPE provides leadership in thinking on publication ethics, practical resources to educate and support members, and offers a professional voice in current debates.
COAPI brings together representatives from North American universities with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies. It was formed to share information and experiences and to illuminate opportunities for moving faculty-led open access forward at member institutions and advocating for open access nationally and internationally. COAPI will offer a collection of best and evolving practices to act as a roadmap for inspiring, promoting and implementing open access policies at institutions without existing or effective open access policies.
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access works to ensure that the published results of research funded with public dollars are made available to the American public, for free, online, as soon as possible.