General information on Open Access

www.earlham.edu/overview - Overview of Open Access
www.keyperspectives.co.uk - Briefing paper
www.earlham.edu/fosblog - Open Access News (best resource for current information on the OA movement).
oad.simmons.edu - Open Access Directory (a compendium of simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship).

OA declarations

www.icml9.org - Salvador Declaration on Open Access: The Developing World Perspective, Salvador, Bahia - Brazil - September 21-22, 2005.
www.earlham.edu - Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, 2003
www.zim.mpg.de - Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, Wednesday 22nd October, 2003.
www.soros.org - Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002

Leading organizations

www.surf.nl - SURF/Dare
www.arl.org/sparc - SPARC
www.sparceurope.org - SPARC Europe
www.jisc.ac.uk - JISC
www.soros.org/openaccess - OSI (BOAI)
www.wellcome.ac.uk - Wellcome Trust

Advocacy

www.lboro.ac.uk - advocacy toolkit
www.arl.org/sparc - SPARC Author Addendum
sciencecommons.org - Science Commons Scholar’s Copyright Project

Intellectual Property Rights

trustdr.ulster.ac.uk - developing pack for Institutional repositories
copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox - Copyright Toolbox (by SURF and the JISC funded research and activities and based upon the Zwolle conferences on Copyright management in higher education and the RoMEO research)

OA journal links

www.doaj.org - Directory of Open Access Journals
www.soros.org - Guide to Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Societies
www.plos.org - Public Library of Science
www.biomedcentral.com - BioMed Central
www.hindawi.com - Hindawi Publishing
www.bioline.org.br - Bioline International

Institutional Repository links

www.digital-scholarship.org - quick introduction to key aspects of institutional repositories (.pdf)
www.opendoar.org - Directory of Open Access Repositories
www.soros.org - Guide to Institutional Repository Software
www.eprints.org - EPrints
www.dspace.org - DSpace
www.fedora-commons.org/ - Fedora Commons

The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact

opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html/ - The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies