Open Access
Information Portals
- Global Open Access Portal - UNESCOInformation on open access around the world.
- Global Research Council"The Global Research Council is a virtual organization, comprised of the heads of science and engineering funding agencies from around the world, dedicated to promoting the sharing of data and best practices for high-quality collaboration among funding agencies worldwide."
- Le libre accès: Pour un développement durable de la communication savanteDocument prepared by CRÉPUQ’s Library Subcommittee in 2012 (in French only).
- Open Access Overview, by Peter SuberPeter Suber is the foremost expert on open access. He directs the Harvard Open Access Project and is a senior researcher for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
- Policy Guidelines for the Development and promotion of Open AccessPublication describing UNESCO's guidelines and principles for open access to information and knowledge.
- Right to Research CoalitionAn international student coalition promoting open access that represents seven million students and numerous student associations.
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)"An international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication."
The reference on open access
Open Access - ISBN: 9780262517638Publication Date: 2012Hyperlink to the page Peter Suber uses to update his book. This page provides links to the book in PDF, ePub, HTML and Mobi (Kindle) formats.
The Library owns the print edition.
Open access initiatives
In 2002, the Budapest Open Access Initiative gathered academic leaders to define open access and to work together towards its implementation.
In 2013, the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Department issued a press release: Open access to research publications reaching the ‘tipping point’. It mentions that almost half of the scientific articles published in 2011 were available for free at the time.
Several documents in favor of open access were produced by various countries and organizations. Here are some of them:
