Links

Open access initiatives:

• Public  Library  of Science
•  Dictionary of Open Access Journals
•  Public  Library of Science/ Other Open Access Resource
•  wiki.icommons.org
• oc.openflows.org
• Open Society Institute
• www.wikipedia.org
• a survey of the research community
• Public Access Mandate made Law (USA)
• O A mandate from European Research Council (2006)
• WW momentum for public acc. to publicly funded RS
• Peter Suber on NIH Mandate Misconceptions
• http://www.libraryyale.edu/~llicense/develop.shtml
• http://www.irel-open.ie
• http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm
• http://www.sabinet.co.za/open_access.html
• http://www.etdguide.org/
• http://copyright.shuttleworthfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://www.openjournals.net
• Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi
• how Hindawi became an open access publisher
• Another society journal converts to OA
• More on Open Access and metrics
• Authors and Open Access
• http://www.opendoar.org
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography
• Get More from Your Academic Research
• http://www.sivulile.org
• http://www.opendoar.org
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
• Openaccessday
• Freeculture.org
• 50 Places to Find Free Books Online

For Libraries

• Copyright Wiki (Shuttleworth Foundation)
• www.ifla.org
• www.eifl.net
• Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving
• Institutional repositories policies on the Web
• CERN Action on Open Access: best practices
• Development Pack for Institutional Repositories
• Case study – self-archiving is easy
• Archival tips
• Digitization & Preservation
• Open Access to Knowledge and Information
• Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives
• http://www.cla.ca
• The Case for Long-Term Electronic Data Archiving
• The  Library in the New Age
• Access to libraries and information: towards a fairer world
• http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/
• On Libraries and a Future without Petroleum
• IFLA Information Technology Section’s newsletter
• Newspaper Archive

Science and R&D

• www.sanger.ac.uk
• www.plos.org
• Rep. on a Strat. Approach to R.S. Publishing in S. A
• Scientists ‘obliged’ to share wisdom (Australia)
• Research Councils UK
• More from Australia’s science minister on Open Access
• Research Funders’ Open Access Policies
• http://www.digital-scholarship.org/
• www.ir.dcu.ie
• Scholarly communication and open access
• http://dev.biologists.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml  
• http://www.digital-scholarship.com/etdb/etdb.htm
• KEY CON. WITHIN THE SCHOLARLY COMMu. PROCESS
• Open Science Directory
• http://thoughtmesh.net/
• Journal of Hematology & Oncology (now OA)
• SPARC
• Scientific American
• Academic knowledge development

   

 International Organizations and IP:

• www.wipo.org
• www.unesco.org
• www.creativecommons.org
• www.ipronline.org
• www.ictsd.org
• www.cptech.org
• www.oecd.org
• www.sourceoecd.org
• www.southcentre.org
• http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:IP
• Standing Committee on the law of Patents
• http://www.dti.gov.za/ccrd/ip/notice.pdf
• http://www.dti.gov.za/ccrd/ipbills.htm
• http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/tk/
• Afri. CR  and Access to Knowledge Project
• Development Agenda for WIPO
• WIPO University initiative
• WIPO useful links
• Intellectual Network for the South

Miscellaneous links:

• Asia and the Commons Case Study 2008
• Get rid of the patent absurdities  
• Research funders open access policies
• Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
• Non-Exhaustive List of Resources
• http://eprints.law.duke.edu/1698/
• African Copyright and Access to Knowledge Project
• Open Access Directory  
• The real ACTA threat
• A book publisher’s manifesto for the 21st century 
• The Benefits and Advantages of Ebooks 
• Publish and Perish?  Protecting your C.R from your Publisher  
• Using the SPARC Author Addendum
• What we don’t know about open access
• Open Access and the Self-Correction of Knowledge
• The Fair Use Network (USA)
• Comic book on Canadian Copyright Reform
• Get More from Your Academic Research
• OpenSource Cinema
• UK Commission Report Highlights Negative Impacts Of  IPRS On Development 
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
• "Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development"
• The African Copyright & Access to Knowledge Project