Links

• Open Access Directories/Portals
• Open Access Advocacy Organisations
• Research on Open Access
• Forums and Mailing Lists
• Open Access Blogs
• Open Access Events/Conferences
• General
• Open Access Publishers
• Research Networks

OA Directories/Portals

[Open Access Directory](http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page)

Switched Journals– Open Access Directory list of journals that converted from TA to OA.

[UNESCO Global Open Access Portal](http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/)

[Open Aire](http://www.openaire.eu/) – European OA Infrastructure

OpenDOAR – OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

COAR  – The Confederation of Open Access Repositories

ROARMAP – Registry of open access repositories mandatory archiving policies

Policy and Advocacy Organisations

OKF – Open Knowledge

OSF – Open Science Federation 

SPARC – Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

SPARC Europe

R2RC – Right to Research Coalition  International alliance of student organizations

EOS– Enabling Open Scholarship

Open Society Foundations– formerly Open Society Institute

EIFL – enabling access to knowledge through libraries in developing countries

[SSP](http://www.sspnet.org/) – ‘Innovative people advancing scholarly communication’.

Open Access Net German platform for promotion of OA.

OAPEN Library – OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

Open Access NL – Dutch national website about advantages of OA.

Digitale gesellschaft

EPTD – Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

Research on Open Access

[Open Access tracking project](http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project)

[Study of Open Access Publishing](http://project-soap.eu)

[Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)](http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page#Research_assistants)

[Research and communication strategy project](http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/projects/rcs/index.php)

WIKI Project Open Access

Forums and Mailing Lists

[SPARC open access forum](https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/group/sparc-oaforum/topics?pli=1)

[Social network for open access minded scientists](http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

[GOAL global open access list](http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal)

[Open access infopage](http://open-access.infodocs.eu/tiki-index.php) – EU registered users.

@ccess mailing list

ResearchGate group on open Access

[Science and development network](http://www.scidev.net/)
Connotea – Social bookmarking service for clinicians and scientists.
ISN  – Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg Germany

Blogs on Open Access

Sparc Open Access Newsletter (SOAN)

Open Access newsletter archive  by Peter Suber
HomePage of Peter Suber

Richard Poynder – Open and Shut.

Peter Murray-Rust – A scientist and the web

Stevan Harnad – Open Access Archivangelism

Cameron Neylon – Science in the Open 

Bjoern Brembs Net

Mike Taylor – Sauropod Vertebrae Picture of the Week

Heather Piwowar – Research Remix

Michael Eisen – It is not Junk

Heather Morrison – Poetic Economics

Biomedcentral Blog

Michael Nielsen’s Blog

Tim Gower’s Weblog

John Willbanks – Low-Fi thoughts on Hi-Fi subjects

Ellyssa Krosk – News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution

Events and Conferences

[Open Access Africa](http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/events/openaccessafrica)

General

JISC  – promotes use of digital technology for research.

Sherpa  – developing institutional repositories

Creative Commons – making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others.

OASIS – Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook

Open Access Publishers

[BiomedCentral](http://www.biomedcentral.com) – publisher of 223 peer-reviewed open access journals

[Public Library of Science](http://www.plos.org/)

[Intech](http://www.intechweb.org/)

[Frontiers](http://www.frontiersin.org)

[Wiley Open](http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/)

[Springer Open](http://www.springeropen.com/)

@eLifeJournal (twitter) – eLife is a new open access journal from Max Planck Society, Wellcome Trust and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Beall’s list of predatory open access publishers

Research networks

ResearchGate

Mendeley

Academia.edu

MyScienceWork

VIVO

Research1st

eCancer

MalariaWorld