Open Access Resources

Background Reading:

Open Access News: One of the best resources to stay up-to-date with current happenings in and around Open Access.

Open Access Overview by Peter Suber: An introduction to the concept of Open Access geared for those who have little to no familiarity.

ARL-SPARC news: News and annoucements from the ARL Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

Open Access Tracking Project: Community maintained catalog of Open Access related web resources.

Articles Addressing the Benefits of Open Access

Eysenbach G (2006) Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biol 4(5): e157. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157

Davis PM, Lewenstein BV, Simon DH, Booth JG, Connolly MJL. Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2008;337:a568. doi:10.1136/bmj.a568

Hajjem, C., Harnad, S. and Gingras, Y. (2005) Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 28 (4). pp. 39-47. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12906/