Open Access, Consortia, Portals, Digital Resources, Scientific Publishing

Access to Electronic Resources, Consortia

• CARE Coordinamento per l'Accesso alle Risorse Elettroniche CARE è il gruppo di Coordinamento per l’Accesso alle Risorse Elettroniche costituito nell’ambito della Convenzione tra CRUI - Conferenza permanente dei Rettori delle Università Italiane e i Consorzi e Gruppi di acquisto operanti in Italia.
• ICOLC International Coalition of Library Consortia
• NESLI2 The National e-Journals Initiative NESLi2 is the UK’s national initiative for the licensing of electronic journals on behalf of the higher and further education and research communities
• JISC Joint Information Systems Commitee (UK)

• Activities, costs and funding flows in the scholarly communications system in the UK. Report commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN). Full Report, May 2008, 88 p. [PDF, 577 kB].
• European Commission, Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe. Final Report, January 2006, 108 p. [PDF, 828 kB].
• Frankfurt Group Consensus Forum for academic and research information Studies and reports on Open Access publishing, VAT on academic information
• CERN meeting "Establishing a sponsoring consortium for Open Access publishing in particle physics", Geneva, 03 November 2006
• CRUI, Raccomandazioni per lo sviluppo dell'Editoria Elettronica negli Atenei Italiani / a cura di Patrizia Cotoneschi e Giancarlo Pepeu. Firenze University Press - CRUI, 2006.
• BioMed Central, Comparison of BioMed Central's Article Processing Charges with those of other publishers (updated on August 2006)

• Peter Suber, Open Access Overview. Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints. 2006.
• CERN Action on Open Access
• Report of the Task Force on Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, CERN, June 2006
• AePIC: portale sull'Open Access in Italia
• ERC (European Research Council) Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access (17 December 2007)
• Linee Guida per l'accesso aperto redatte dal Consiglio Scientifico Europeo (ERC) 17 dicembre 2007 (traduzione italiana di: ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access)
• CRUI: Linee guida per gli archivi istituzionali
• CRUI: Linee guida per il deposito delle tesi di dottorato negli archivi aperti
• Raccomandazioni EUA (European University Asociation) in materia di Open Access

• PLEIADI (Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali)
• OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories (contains more than 2205 repositories)
• DOAJ - the Directory of Open Access Journals (more than 8016 journals, more than 3939 are searchable at article level)
• NARCIS (The gateway to scholarly information in The Netherlands) access to 701.886 publications
• BASE, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine [more than 36 million documents, 2200 sources].
• eIFL.net - Electronic Information for Libraries (portal on consortia, electronic resources, Open Access)

• OAIster - a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources (more than 22,000,000 records from more than 1100 institutions)
• NARCIS the gateway to Dutch scientific information, provides access to 153595 scientific publications, 2114 data sets, and information on researchers (expertise), research projects and research institutes in the Netherlands.
• Intute Repository Search. Search across 83 UK academic eprints repositories including The Depot.
• Scientific Commons (over 38 millions publications)
• SDL - SISSA Digital Library

• DART-Europe E-theses Portal (access to 312649 open access research theses from 435 Universities in 24 European countries)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
• Promise of Science provides access to 45212 full-text doctoral e-theses from all Dutch universities. It is a subset of NARCIS and DAREnet.
• Theses and Dissertations Online (Spain)
• thèses-EN-ligne (CNRS)
• Digitale Dissertationen im Internet (Deutsche Bibliothek)
• bibliothèque numérique RERO DOC (digital library of Western Switzerland)

• eIFL-IP, Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues for Libraries, (December 2006), 47 p.

• Documents in Information Science (DoIS)

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