It’s easy to stay up to date on changes in scholarly communications with News and More OA news on this website. But there are many additional resources to aid you and your colleagues:

• your institutional repository manager
• your library
• newsletters
• publications and articles of interest
• reference works and studies
• useful flyers
• websites
• blogs
• discussion lists.

Your Institutional Repository Manager

• For universities: go to NARCIS and click on the name of a specific institution you will find information about the content of a repository, contact details, the used technology, and a link to the repository itself.
• For universities of applied sciences: go to HBO Knowledge Base ('HBO Kennisbank') and click on the name of a specific institution you will find the contact details of the repository manager.

Your Library

Librarians have been leaders in the movement for expanded sharing of scholarship. Here are some of the many library resources available to you:

• Meet with your department’s liaison in the library to get the facts behind scholarly communication issues.
• Each university library has a 'Auteursrechten Informatiepunt' you can contact for advise on how to deal with your author rights in order to obtain greater reach for your research.

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Publications and articles of interest

• A brief overview of international trends in Open Access by Leo Waaijers, nov. 2009
• Digitize This Book!; The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now by Gary Hall, 2008.
• Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects by Neil Jacobs (Ed.), 2006
• The Access Principle; The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship by John Willinsky, 2005.
• SPARC privides a good list of articles of interest.

Newsletters

For analysis of open access developments:

• Sign up to receive the e-mailed SPARC Open Access Newsletter or visit the newsletter’s online archive.
• Subscribe to SPARC e-news, a bi-monthly electronic newsletter on SPARC publishing partnerships, includes key developments that impact scholarly communication.

Reference works and studies

• The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies
• State of the art in the Netherlands: Paper (PDF) on Open Access and University Policies.
• The Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: the Dutch situation: examines the costs and potential benefits of alternative models for scientific and scholarly publishing in the Netherlands (2009).
• Open Access Scholarly Communciaton Sourcebook (OASIS)
• Open Access works by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
• For an overview of terms used: The Open Access Glossary.
• Guidance for authors: Sherpa Romeo on Open Access, an overview of relevant issues for authors. Among them: Funders' Grant Rules and Journal Copyright rules.
• A guide for policy makers: Campus-Based Open-Access Publishing Funds: A Practical Guide To Design And Implementation (SPARC, 2010)
• Switching to open access publishing models can save universities money: Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and Benefits for Universities (JISC report, 2010)

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Useful flyers

• Greater Reach for Research with Open Access
• Springer instruction: Springer Open Choice
• 'Library support possible to meet with Open Access requirements in FP7'

Websites

Several organizations’ websites offer a wealth of information on the movement for expanded sharing of scholarship:

• Information about Dutch initiatives at SURFshare, a programme about Open Access and scholarly communication.
• SURFdirect offers a website on copyright in higher education with guidelines, tools and information about Digital Rights
• The Association of Research Libraries - Office of Scholarly Communication (ARL/OSC) seeks to promote innovative, creative, and affordable ways of sharing scholarly findings, particularly through championing new electronic techniques for recording and disseminating academic and research scholarship. ARL/OSC has a useful list of links to instances of faculty speaking out about scholarly communication issues.
• The Association of College and Research Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Toolkit is designed to provide information on scholarly communication issues for faculty, academic administrators, librarians, and other campus stakeholders. It summarizes key issues, giving readers quick, basic information on scholarly communication topics.
• The SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) website offers a wide range of information and resources on public access advocacy, open access publishing, institutional repositories, and more.

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Blogs

Open Access News by Peter Suber isn’t the only worthwhile scholarly communication blog. Libraries and librarians have created other excellent blogs on the topic. These are some good examples:

• Charles Bailey’s DigitalKoans
• The Scholarly Kitchen; by The Society for Scholarly Publishing
• Stephen Harnads Open Access Archivangelism
• Caveat Lector (Reader Beware!), provocative thinking about Scholarly Communciation, Libraries and Open Access
• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library, which keeps in touch with its campus community with a blog that’s also dubbed Issues in Scholarly Communication.
• The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, one librarian’s effort to make the case for “a world where anyone can instantly access all of the world’s scholarly knowledge.”

Discussion lists

For those who enjoy a lively email list:

• Join Sigma Xi’s American Scientist Open Access Forum.

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