EIFL-OA Resources

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)
The SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
Advocacy 'Know Your Rights' Toolkit
HowOpenIsIt? Open Access Spectrum (OAS) by PLOS, SPARC and OASPA
Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries
Copyright Information compiled by Denise Nicholson, Copyright Services Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand

4) Open access journals

Directory of Open Access Journals
Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing (Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Libraries Head Office)
Open Access Journal Business Guides
Guide to Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Societies
Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice
Public Library of Science
BioMed Central
Hindawi Publishing
Bioline International

5) Open access repositories

Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suit, written by Charles W.Bailey, Jr. [PDF]
Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
What are Institutional Repositories? [PDF] A Briefing Paper written by Alma Swan for OASIS
Institutional Repositories: Business Issues for Institutional Managers. [PDF] A Briefing Paper written by Alma Swan for OASIS
Institutional Repositories for Research Management and Assessment. [PDF] The Briefing Paper written by Wendy White, University of Southampton Library and edited by Alma Swan for OASIS
JISC infoNet - Introduction to the Digital Repositories infoKit
Repositories Support Project
Report on Open Repository Development in Developing and Transition countries [PDF]
IR Wiki developed by Stellenbosch University SUNScholar repository team
SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide [PDF] prepared by Raym Crow, SPARC Senior Consultant
Creating an Institutional Repository: LEADIRS Workbook
Open Access Policy Kit produced by RCAAP (Portugal Open Access Scientific Repository)
Guide to good practices for university open-access policies by Stuart Shieber and Peter Suber, the Harvard Open Access Project
Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access by Alma Swan, comissioned by UNESCO
The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012), The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
DRIVER Guidelines 2.0: Guidelines for Repository Managers and Administrators on how to expose digital scientific resources using OAI-PMH and Dublin Core Metadata, creating interoperability by homogenising the repository output. [PDF]
DINI Certificate Document and Publication Services 2010 [PDF]
EPrints
DSpace
Fedora Commons

6) Impact

The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies
Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date. Technical Report , School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton
Open Access impact: a Briefing Paper for researchers, universities and funders [PDF] written by Alma Swan for OASIS
New metrics for research outputs: an overview. [PDF] written by Alma Swan
Beyond Impact is an Open Society Foundations funded project that aims to facilitate a conversation between researchers, their funders, and developers about what we mean by the “impact” of research and how we can make its measurement more reliable, more useful, and more accepted by the research community

7) Costs and benefits

Swan, A (2010) Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and benefits for universities. Project Report.
Open Access – What are the economic benefits? A comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark written by Professor John Houghton, Victoria University, Australia, for Knowledge Exchange
The briefing paper ‘Open Access Business Models for research funders and universities’ commissioned by Knowledge Exchange and written by Fred Friend.

8) Leading organizations

9) Open data

General

Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown, Key Perspectives Ltd: Skills, Role & Career Structure of Data Scientists & Curators: Assessment of Current Practice & Future Needs [PDF]
DCC: Infrastructure Planning and Data Curation: A comparative study of international approaches to enabling the sharing of research data [PDF]
MIT’s guide on Data Management and Publishing
Open Data Commons (legal tools and issues)
SPARC Open Data Email Discussion List
International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST)
Special IQ: Moving Research Data Into and Out of Institutional Repositories, May 12th, 2009
Research data management guidance - a set of web pages written as guidance for university researchers on research data management & sharing, published as part of a re-launched University of Edinburgh Information Services website.
Panton Principles for Open Data in Science
Kuipers, T & van der Hoeven, J (2009) PARSE.Insight: INSIGHT into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science
Tenopir C, Allard S, Douglass K, Aydinoglu AU, Wu L, et al. (2011) Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21101. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021101
Martijn de Groot and Marion Wittenberg (eds) (2010) Driven by data – exploring the research horizon. Amsterdam University Press
Opportunities for Data Exchange (2011): Ten Tales of Drivers and Barriers in Data Sharing; Report on Integration of Data and Publication (Executive Summary); Report on Integration of Data and Publication
Ball, A and Duke, M (2011) How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications. Digital Curation Centre
Green, T (2009). We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables, OECD Publishing White Paper, OECD Publishing. doi: 10.1787/603233448430
Knowledge-Exchange (2011): A Surfboard for Riding the Wave Towards a four country action programme on research data

Projects and Initiatives

DANS – promotes access to research data (the Netherlands)
DataCite – provides links to a range of research data - also of interest: http://www.datacite.org/repolist; DataCite Blog on DataCite content service
DataOne (Data Observation Network for Earth) – ensuring preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, multi-national science data
EUDAT – a Europe-wide solution to data management
Digital Curation Centre – a centre of expertise on data curation. Plenty of Briefing papers/resources for data managers
Dryad – Biosciences data repository. Only accepts data related to peer-reviewed articles
PANGAEA – Repository for earth and environmental science
Data Asset Framework – UK based project assisting organisations with managing their research assets
CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology) – Established by the International Council for Science and recognises that sharing of data is essential – shares a useful list of data policies
Linked Data – a useful resource that sets out standards information and FAQs for linking online data
RatSWD – German Data Forum on Research Data Centers and Data Service Centers
SURF Foundation – Enhanced publications project looks at six different cross-discipline projects. Interesting video too.
Open Knowledge Foundation – builds tools and communities to promote open data and access
FigShare – allows researchers to publish and make citeable research results, a sharing data platform

Data Policies
UK:

Germany:

Alliance of German Science Organisations

Tools

Archer – a set of software management tools for research data

Certification

Data Seal of Approval – ensuring that data sets meet a specific set of requirements for future-proofing and long term management

(Compiled by Najla Rettberg, OpenAIREplus Scientific Manager)

10) Readings

Carr, L., White, W., Miles, S. and Mortimer, B. (2008) Institutional Repository Checklist for Serving Institutional Management. In: Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008, 1-4 April 2008, Southampton, United Kingdom
Recommendations from the EUA Working Group on Open Access adopted by the EUA Council on 26th of March 2008 (University of Barcelona, Spain) [PDF]
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council Guidelines for Open Access 17 December 2007 [PDF]
А sample set of Open Access Principles [WORD] that may be adopted by your institution as the foundation for an Open Access Policy from A Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository Kylie Pappalardo and Dr Anne Fitzgerald With the assistance of Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Damien O’Brien and Anthony Austin Open Access to Knowledge Law Project
Your Repository Deposit Licence [WORD] should set out from A Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository Kylie Pappalardo and Dr Anne Fitzgerald With the assistance of Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Damien O’Brien and Anthony Austin Open Access to Knowledge Law Project
Final checklist [WORD] for developing open access through your digital repository from A Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository Kylie Pappalardo and Dr Anne Fitzgerald With the assistance of Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Damien O’Brien and Anthony Austin Open Access to Knowledge Law Project
Repository Deposit Licences: Annex 2 [WORD] to A Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository Kylie Pappalardo and Dr Anne Fitzgerald With the assistance of Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Damien O’Brien and Anthony Austin Open Access to Knowledge Law Project
Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Sample Repository Deposit Licence for Publications [WORD]
SURF foundation Licence to Deposit in a Digital Repository [WORD]
The Application of the Zwolle Principles to Open Access Repository and Journal Content [WORD] Frederick J. Friend
From Investigative Study of Standards for Digital Repositories and Related Services [WORD] Muriel Foulonneau and Francis André, Amsterdam University Press. Full text available here. [PDF]
Exerpts from The European Repository Landscape Inventory Study into the Present Type and Level of OAI-Compliant Digital Repository Activities in the EU [WORD] Maurits van der Graaf and Kwame van Eijndhoven, Amsterdam University Press. The full text is available here [PDF].
OPEN DOORS AND OPEN MINDS: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution [PDF] A SPARC / SCIENCE COMMONS WHITE PAPER (April 2008)
The business of digital repositories [PDF] Swan, A. (2008) The business of digital repositories. In: A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories (Amsterdam, 2007), Amsterdam University Press.
Seventeen guidelines for stimulating the population of repositories [PDF]. These guidelines are an excerpt from: Proudman, V. (2007) The population of repositories. In Eds. K. Weenink, L.Waaijers and K. van Godtsenhoven, A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories (pp.49 - 101) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Repository Staff and Skills Set [PDF] written by Mary L. Robinson, SHERPA European Development Officer

11) Resources about open access in non-English languages

12) Open educational resources

Cape Town Open Education Declaration follows the model of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and was produced following a meeting convened by the Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation in Cape Town in September 2007. The Cape Town Declaration offers strategies for the development of open educational resources.
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER) by Asha Kanwar (COL) (Editor), Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić (UNESCO) (Editor), Neil Butcher (Author); Publishers: COL, UNESCO (July 2011)
Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education; Publishers: COL, UNESCO (November 2011)
Survey on Governments’ Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies by Sarah Hoosen (Neil Butcher & Associates) (Editor); Publishers: COL, UNESCO (June 2012)
Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice by Jenny Glennie (Editor), Ken Harley (Editor), Neil Butcher (Editor), Trudi van Wyk (Editor); Contributors: Jenny Glennie, Ken Harley, Neil Butcher, Trudi van Wyk, Dendev Badarch, Svetlana Knyazeva, Andy Lane, V. Bharathi Harishankar, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, Adam Rahman and Chris Andrew Yebuah, Ingrid Sapire, Yvonne Reed, Tessa Welch, Freda Wolfenden, Catherine Ngugi, Gráinne Conole, Lisbeth Levey, Heather Kanuka, Geneviève Gauthier, John T. Lesperance, John Arul Phillips, Edward P. Rybicki, Jonathan E. Myers, Monica Mawoyo, Sarah Hoosen, Carolina Rossini, Wayne Mackintosh; Publishers: COL, UNESCO (June 2012)
Exploring the Business Case for Open Educational Resources by Neil Butcher (Author), Sarah Hoosen (Author); Publishers: COL (September 2012)
Connexions - a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
MIT OpenCourseWare - MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.
Creative Commons - provides the tools necessary to overcome these restrictions, opening up educational resources so that they are not only accessible, but adaptable, interoperable, and discoverable — helping to realize the full benefits of digitally enabled education. More information and projects: DiscoverEd - a scalable search and discovery prototype for educational resources on the web; Licensing Portal for Educators, etc.
The Khan Academy offers over 3,000 instructional videos covering everything from basic algebra to advanced chemistry, biology, and even the current day banking crisis. 3.5 millions learners use the site each month, and all videos are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA, with some already translated into Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, and more. The Khan Academy is currently exploring a system that awards learners points and badges as they progress.
P2PU is a grassroots education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements — creating a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional higher education models. P2PU is also exploring alternative methods of assessment and certification through its badges pilot.
The African Virtual University (AVU) OER portal OER@AVU
China Open Resources for Education
The Global Text Project - The Global Text Project is engaging the collective intelligence of worldwide communities in the development of current, high-quality content.
Jorum - a free online service providing access to teaching and learning resources, for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions.
MERLOT - (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education.
NDLR (or National Digital Learning Resources) Ireland
OpenCourseWare Consortium
OpenCourseWare Consortium Europe
OER Africa: there are sections on: Understanding OER – Introducing OER, FAQs and links to some of the UNSECO/COL publications; Finding OER – tools for finding OER as well as links to the OERs collected by OER Africa (in the areas of Health, Agriculture, Teacher Education and Foundations Skills); OER in Action – showcasing African OER initiatives; OER Toolkits – OER licensing and policy implications, especially useful for higher education, toolkits on Licensing and Copyright and Policy Development and Review; OER Readings: a moderated collection of resources relevant to everyone interested in the development of open education resources in education in Africa; and more…
OER Commons - (Open Educational Resources) Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues' course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today's classrooms.
OER Handbook - The purpose of this handbook is to provide a guide for those who are just getting started in the creation of open educational resources (OER).
OER Research - The body of work collected here represents the combined efforts of organizations worldwide.
Open AGH - OER platform, Poland
OpenLearn – free and open educational resources. OpenLearn is an open content initiative by the Open University.
The UCT OpenContent directory - the web portal for accessing open teaching and learning content from the University of Cape Town.
Videolectures.net, built and maintained by the Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia.
LibGuide on Open Learning Resources
The OER Policy Registry Needs Your Help
Free Online Open Courses (from the world's leading universities) - Open Education Database
OnlineCourses.com aggregates the best free and open courseware for students and professionals from over 500 university and college level classes globally.