Open Access Bibliography

This bibliography contains selected references on these topics, including those cited on Lane's main Open Access page.

American Scientist Open Access Forum Archives.  Covers 1998-<2004>.

Antelman, Kristin.  Do Open Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? College & Research Libraries  2004; 65(5):372-82.

Association of College and Research Libraries.  Scholarly Communication.
Goal is to increase access to scholarly information; foster cost-effective alternative means of publishing, especially those that take advantage of electronic information technologies; and encourage scholars to assert greater control over scholarly communications.

Association of Research Libraries.  New Models of Publishing. The Open Access Movement.
Open access to quality information in support of learning and scholarship.  Includes Framing the Issue, a guide to understandings what's involved and what can be done.  Note the Obstacles to Open Access section.  Archive of newletter articles.

At What Cost?  Stanford Magazine May/June 2004.
"As the price of scholarly journals skyrockets, Stanford fights back."

Bailey, Charles W.  Open Access Bibliography : Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals.  Association of Research Libraries, 2005.

Bailey, Charles W.  Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.  Version 54 (2004 July 13).  Cf. New Publishing Models section.

Bell, Steven J.  The New Digital Divide: Dissecting Aggregator Exclusivity Deals. D-Lib Magazine, July/August 2001.

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.

Biomed Central ("The Open Access Publisher")
Their Open Access Now newsletter is good for keeping up-to-date, e.g. (Mis)Leading Open Access Myths.

Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO).  Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium (2004).

Boyd, Stephen; Herkovic, Andrew. Crisis in Scholarly Publishing.
This note is a summary of discussions of a subcommittee of the Stanford Academic Council Committee on Libraries (C-LIB), consisting of Stephen Boyd (chair), Doug Brutlag, Sam Chiu, Tim Lenoir, Assunta Pisani, and Andrew Herkovic. It was presented to C-LIB on 5/10/99, and to the Faculty Senate on 5/27/99.  It identifies some serious issues about the current state of commercial publishing.

Brown, Patrick.  Vantage Point: PLoS Co-Founder Defends Free Dissemination of Peer-Reviewed Journals Online.  Stanford Report, Feb. 26, 2004.

Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Butler, Declan.  Britain Decides 'Open Access' is Still an Open Issue.  Nature  2004 July 21.

Carlson, Scott.  Once-Trustworthy Newspaper Databases Have Become Unreliable and Frustrating. Chronicle of Higher Education, January 25, 2002.

Cornell University Library.  DPubS (Digital Publishing System).  <2004-09-16>.

Cozzarelli, Nicholas R.  PNAS and Open Access.  Nature Web Focus 2004 June 25.

Create Change. "Supporting faculty and librarian action in scholarly communication," <2003>.

Declaring Independence. A Guide to Creating Community-Controlled Science Journals, <2004>.  From SPARC.

Elsevier's Comments on ... Publishing ... and Implications of Open Access ...

Esposito, Joseph J.  The Devil You Don’t Know:  The Unexpected Future of Open Access Publishing.  First Monday 2004 Aug; 9(8).

Fedora Project.  Repository software.

Foster, Andrea.  Papers Wanted: Online Archives Run By Universities Struggle to Attract Material.  Chronicle of Higher Education 2004 June 25.

Frankel, Mark S.  Seizing the Moment:  Scientists' Authorship Rights in the Digital Age.   July 2002.

Frazier, Kenneth.  The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the 'Big Deal'.  D-Lib Magazine, March 2001.

Great Britain.  House of Commons.  Science and Technology - Tenth Report.  2004 July 7.
Has been referred to as:  Scientific Publications: Free for All?

Greenstein, Daniel.  Not So Quiet on the Western Front.  Nature Web Focus 2004 May 28; University of California/California Digital Library perspective with good statistics on economics of commericial and society publishing.

Greenstone Digital Library.  Repository software.

Guédon, Jean-Claude.  In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing Creating the Digital Future, Association of Research Libraries Proceedings of the 138th Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario May 23-25, 2001.

Guterman, Lila.  Scientific Societies' Publishing Arms Unite Against Open-Access Movement. Chronicle of Higher Education  2004 Mar. 26.

Guterman, Lila.  Study Challenges Equation of Open-Access Publishing With an Author-Pays Business Model.  Chronicle of Higher Education  2005 Mar. 15.  [This may be temp link].

Harnad, Stevan.  Online Research Communication and Open Access.  Bibliography of his publications.

HighWire Press.
Includes 3/4 million free articles.

John Wiley & Sons.  Wiley Submission to the Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publications. [2004?]  To the British House of Commons.

Johnson, Richard K.  Institutional Repositories. Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication. D-Lib Magazine, Volume 8 Number 11, November 2002.

Kennedy, Donald.  Vantage Point: Science Editor-in-Chief Warns of PLoS Growing Pains.  Stanford Report, Feb. 26, 2004.

King, Donald W.; Tenopir, Carol.  An Evidence-Based Assessment of the 'Author Pays' Model.  Nature Web Focus 2004 June 25.

Krumenaker, Larry.  A Tempest in a Librarian's Teapot: EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale Exclusive, and Unique Titles. Searcher Magazine, July/August 2001.

Lane Medical Library.  Cost of Journals (1998).  500 Most Expensive Journals (1999).

Lawrence, Steve. Online or invisible? (2001). Edited version appears in Nature as: Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact.

Lund University Libraries.  DOAJ:  Directory of Open Access Journals.
Lists over 1,000 titles and over 300 with searchable metadata at the article level.

Lynch, Clifford A.  Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age. ARL Bimonthly Report, 226, February 2003.

McCabe, Mark J.; Snyder, Christopher M.  The Best Business Model for Scholarly Journals: an Economist's Perspective.  Nature Web Focus 2004 July 22.

Medical Library Association.  Open Access.  2003-<2004>.

Miller, Dick R. and Buttner, Mary.  Digital Materials: Cost and Access Issues.  Lane Medical Library, Stanford University, January 31, 2001.  Inventory of economic and access complexities facing libraries.

Misek, Maria.  HighWire Press: Keeping the Scholars in Scholarly Publishing.  EContent July/August 2004.

MIT Libraries.  DSpace.  EPrint repository.  Papers Wanted highlights difficulties in securing faculty participation.

Morgan, Eric Lease. Open access publishing.  Musings 2004-10-20.

National Institutes of Health (U.S.).  Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research.  2005-02-03.  This policy, effective May 1, 2005, requires deposit in BioMed Central with 12 months of publication, although encouraging public availability as soon as possible.

National Library of Medicine (U.S.).  International Agreement to Expand PubMed Central.  2004 June 25.
Additional medical journals, some dating back more than 125 years, will be made freely available on the Internet.  See also Wellcome Trust below.

Nature Publishing Group.  Access to the Literature:  The Debate Continues.  Nature Web Focus [ongoing]  This and the following are excellent compilations of the ongoing debate.

Nature Publishing Group. Future e-access to the primary literature (WebDebates). Nature 2001.

Norris Medical Library.  Study Reveals User of NMLweb Electronic Journals exceeds Print Usage. Norris Medical Library Newsletter: University of Southern California. Spring 2000, no. 30   See p. 6.

OACS - Open Access Communication for Science.
OACS is based at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.

Ohanluain, Daithí. Calls for Open Access Challenge Academic Journals.  Online Journalism Review (USC Annenberg) 2004-12-10.

Open Access 2004.  Serials Review 2004; 30(4):special issue
p. 257:  Goodman, David.  Special Focus on Open Access: Issues, Ideas, and Impact
p. 258-70: Goodman, David. The Criteria for Open Access
p. 271-4: Gedye, Richard. Open Access Is Only Part of the Story
p. 275-80: Regazzi, John. The Shifting Sands of Open Access Publishing, a Publisher's View
p. 281-7: Frank, Martin. A Not-for-Profit Publisher's Perspective on Open Access
p. 288-91:  Anderson, Rick. Author disincentives and open access
p. 292-7: Chesler, Adam. Open Access: A Review of an Emerging Phenomenon
p. 298-303: Rowland, Fytton. Delivery, Management and Access Model for E_prints and Open Access
p. 304-7: Morris, Sally. Open Access: How Are Publishers Reacting?
p. 308-9: Velterop, Jan. Open Access: Science Publishing as Science Publishing Should Be
p. 310-14: Harnad, Stevan. The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access
p. 315-28: Guédon, Jean-Claude. The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: The Case for Mixing and Matching

Ohio State University.  Create an Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Using Adobe Acrobat.  Should help scholars who want to make PDF versions of their eprints before depositing them in repositories.

Open Archives Initiative.  OAI registered repositories listed at Registered Data Providers.

Owens, Susan R.  Revolution or Evolution?  A shift to an open-access model of publishing would clearly benefit science, but who should pay?  EMBO Reports 2003; 4(8):741–743.

Oxford University Press.  Nucleic Acids Research-- NAR's Open Access Experiment.  Includes press release:
Oxford Journal Takes Bold Step Towards Free Access to Research. June 26, 2004.

Public Library of Science.
Leader in the Open Access movement.  PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine are challenging leading titles.  Cf. an editorial from PLoS regarding the challenge.

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.  Includes statement on Open Access Publishing with definition.

Quint, Barbara.  HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers.  Information Today  2004 Aug. 10.

Schaffer, Amanda. Open access: should scientific articles be available online and free to the public? Slate 2004-12-14

Schonfeld, Roger C. et al.  Library Periodicals Expenses:  Comparison of Non-Subscription Costs of Print and Electronic Formats on a Life-Cycle Basis.  D-Lib Magazine 2004 Jan; 10(1):25 p.

Science Commons Develops Legal and Technical Tools for Sharing Scientific Innovation.  The Science Commons, launched Jan. 1, 2005, by the Creative Commons Project, is an exploratory project to "apply the philosophies and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science."  (From the XML Cover pages)

Shattil, Sanford J. Open access, yes! Open excess, no!  [editorial] Blood 1 May 2004, Vol. 103, No. 9, p. 3257.

SHERPA.  Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving.

Singer, Peter.  When Shall We Be Free?  Journal of Electronic Publishing 2000 Dec; 6(2). 

Smith, Richard.  Paying for bmj.com [editorial] BMJ 2003 Aug 2; 327:241-242.
"From 2005, some users will have to pay for some content."

SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
An alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations built as a constructive response to market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system. There is also a SPARC Europe.

Stanford University. Science & Engineering Libraries.  Serials Cancellations, STM Serials, and Scholarly Communication.  <Dec. 4, 2003>.

Suber, Peter.  A Busy Month of Action on the NIH Open-Access Plan   2004 Oct 2.

Suber, Peter.  The Case for OAI in the Age of Google.  Open Access Newsletter  2004 May 3.

Suber, Peter.  A Haiku Introduction to Open Access 2004 Oct 2.

Suber, Peter.  Open Access News.  [blog]
"News from the open access movement."  His Open Access Overview is also a good introduction.

Suber, Peter.  The Primacy of Authors in Achieving Open Access.  Nature Web Focus 2004 June 10.

Summary Statistics and Growth-Charts Journal and Publisher Policies on Author Self-Archiving (Eprints/ROMEO Version).  Provides statistics on publishers which have given the green light for author archiving.

Thomson ISI.  The Impact of Open Access Journals: A Citation Study. 2004.
This study found no discernible difference in how open access titles perform in terms of citation impact or frequency with traditional titles.

UK Office of Fair Trading.  Can the Scientific Journals Market Work Better? September 9, 2002.

University of British Columbia. Public Knowledge Project.  Open Journal Systems. 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Scholarly Communications in a Digital World: A Convocation, January 27-28, 2005.

University of Southampton.  EPrints.org - Self-Archiving and Open Access (OA) Eprint Archives.  Note especially the Self-Archiving FAQ. 

Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science. 

Wellcome Trust.  Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing.   April 2004.

Wellcome Trust.  Medical Journals Backfiles Digitization Project.  June 2004.
The Wellcome Trust, in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) are joining forces to digitize the complete backfiles of a number of important and historically significant medical journals. The digitized content will be made freely available on the Internet – via PubMed Central.  About 1.5 million pages of text will come online between early 2005 and spring 2006.  See also National Library of Medicine above.

Willinsky, J.  The Nine Flavours of Open Access Scholarly Publishing  Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 2003; 49:263-267.

Willinsky, John.  Copyright Contradictions in Scholarly Publishing. First Monday, Volume 7, Number 11, November 4, 2002.

Wyly, Brendan J.  Competition in Scholarly Publishing? What Publisher Profits Reveal.  ARL Newsletter [2001].

Zafra, Matt.  Prof Wants Research Online.  Stanford Daily, October 1, 2002.

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