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Indiana University Resources
- The Indiana University Strategic Plan for Information Technology 2008 (preliminary draft) outlines IU's future role in scholarly communications in sections C9 and D12.
The Research at Indiana University includes information about internal and external funding.
The Office of Research Administration offers Grant & Contract Services.
Library collection managers can provide information about OA publishing in a specific discipline.
The Indiana University Digital Library Program provides access to a wealth of open access collections.
IUScholarWorks is a suite of services that preserve and disseminate IU research through IUScholarWorks Journals and IUScholarWorks Repository.
Publishing and Copyright Resources
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory can be used to search for open access refereed journals.
The ARL offers higher education faculty and teaching assistants Know Your Copy Rights, a pamphlet that clears up copy right confusion in teaching.
Creative Commons "provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. They boast a Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine that generates a custom PDF to attach to a publisher's copyright agreement for the retention of specified copy rights.
IUPUI Copy Management Center's Reserving Rights of Use in Works Submitted for Publication: Negotiating Publishing Agreements offers a brief essay on protecting your rights and some sample addenda.
Author Rights: Using the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights as the author of a journal article provides an introduction to keeping all or some of your author rights with the SPARC Author Addendum.
NIH Public Access Policy is a mandate for all NIH funded research to be open access through PubMed Central.
ROARMAP, the Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies, compiles OA repository policy details.
SHERPA/RoMEO compiles publisher and journal copyright policies.
Open Access Resources
- Hosted by the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Open Access Directory is a compilation of lists about open access, maintained by the OA community.
The Budapest Open Access Initiative, a document composed at a 2001 Open Society Institute conference, is considered a definitive text of the OA movement.
SPARC and Science Commons authored a paper, "Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution," which encourages faculty to advocate a compulsory open access policy in light of the recent Harvard OA mandate.
Peter Suber, an "independent policy strategist for open access to scientific and scholarly research literature", provides an Open Access Overview, a list of actions you can take to promote open access, and a blog. He also authors the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.
Open Access Organizations
- The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a community that belives taxpayer-funded research should be open public access.
SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, "is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system." It was developed by the Association of Research Libraries.
Organized by ARL and SPARC, Create Change is an educational initiative that promotes new models of scholarly communication.
The Open Access Working Group (established by SPARC), is a group of OA advocates that meet to develop group OA action strategy.
