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Open Access

Open Access
See Peter Suber’s “Praising Progress, Preserving Precision” (2003) for a discussion of the “BBB” definition of open access.
- Budapest Open Access Initiative
  (February 14, 2002)
- Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
  (June 20, 2003)
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
  (October 22, 2003)
Gold and Green OA
As Peter Suber explains, "The OA movement uses the term gold OA for OA delivered by journals, regardless of the journal’s business model, and green OA for OA delivered by repositories. Self-archiving is the practice of depositing one’s own work in an OA repository. All three of these terms were coined by Stevan Harnad." Read Suber's full discussion in Open Access (MIT, 2012), chapter 3.
Gratis and Libre OA
Again, Peter Suber provides a simple explanation of the major differences between two types of open access: "Gratis OA removes price barriers but not permission barriers. Libre OA is free of charge and also free of some copyright and licensing restrictions. Users have permission to exceed fair use, at least in certain ways."
Read Suber's full discussion in Open Access (MIT, 2012), chapter 3.

Reid Larson
Research & Digital Initiatives Librarian
rslarson@hamilton.edu
(315) 859-4480

Lisa Trivedi
Associate Professor of History
ltrivedi@hamilton.edu
(315) 859-4980

SPARC Open Access Fact Sheet
The basics in two pages.
Peter Suber, “ Open Access Overview”
A brief introduction to the topic for those not inclined to read an entire book.

Martin Paul Eve, Open Access and the Humanities (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014)
Background to open access and its specifics for the humanities disciplines, as well as the economics and politics of the phenomenon..
Peter Suber, Open Access (Cambridge: MIT, 2012)
An essential, book-length overview of open access.
SPARC: Open Access
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.
Harvard Open Access Project
HOAP launched in 2011 to foster OA within Harvard, foster OA beyond Harvard, undertake research and policy analysis on OA, and provide OA to timely and accurate information about OA itself. HOAP is available to consult with universities, funding agencies, and other institutions developing their own OA policies.
Open Access Directory
The Open Access Directory is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.

Directory of Open Access Journals
The DOAJ seeks to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals through providing a comprehensive listing of OA journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
OpenDOAR
A directory of academic open access repositories.
ROARMAP
A registry of open access repositories mandatory archiving policies.

SPARC: Author Rights
Use the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights as the author of a journal article.
Creative Commons: About the Licenses
The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. These tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.
SHERPA / RoMEO
RoMEO is a searchable database of publisher's policies regarding the self-archiving of journal articles on the web and in open access repositories.