The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) signed a membership agreement with BioMed Central to cover publication costs for research articles published by researchers at its institutions. CAS has long been a supporter of open access, having signed the Berlin Declaration in 2004. Under the terms of the arrangement, CAS, through its library, will centrally cover half of the article processing ...

Irtalk – a discussion list to discuss, communicate, share information on all open access and institutional repositories related issues in Africa and South Africa. DuraSpace – discussion list for the South Africa DSpace/ DuraSpace workgroup - mostly technical issues (maintained and managed by Hilton Gibson, Linux/ Ubuntu expert and Systems Administrator at the Stellenbosch ...

In autumn 2009 the Hong Kong Open Access Committee (HKOAC) launched a website Open Access for Hong Kong to promote the concept, the reasons for, and the practice of open access in all Hong Kong academic, governmental and philanthropic institutions and to call to freely share research and intellectual output funded by the Hong Kong people. "Open Access of our research outcomes is a must as a ...