BioMed Central "BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 258 peer-reviewed open access journals...." (About Us)
Directory of Open Access Journals "The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, the DOAJ aims to be THE one stop shop for users of open access journals." (DOAJ Aims & Scope)
Open and Shut? Richard Poynder's Blog. "About Richard Poynder: For over a decade Richard Poynder has been observing and reporting on the evolution of the Open Access (OA) movement. During that time he has been variously praised, criticised and threatened." (About Richard Poynder; http://richardpoynder.co.uk/about.html)
OpenDOAR (The Directory of Open Access Repositories) "OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents." (The Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR)
Peter Suber's Wiki - "Peter Suber is the the Director of the Harvard Open Access Project , Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition." (General)
PubMed Central "PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection. Launched in February 2000, PMC was developed and is managed by NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)." (PMC Overview)
Registry of Open Access Repositories "The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective." (Notice)
ROARMAP Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies
SHERPA/ROMEO: Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving
SHERPA/JULIET: Research funders' open access policies
The Scholarly Kitchen "The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing is “[t]o advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking.” The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog aimed to help fulfill this mission by bringing together differing opinions, commentary, and ideas, and presenting them openly." (About)
