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On the Web
- Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives - How to free access to scientific literature: papers by one of the leaders of the open archives initiative.
- Public Library of Science - A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free access online journals and eprints archives.
- American Scientist Forum on Open Access - Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous since 1998.
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - All of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research.
- Free Online Scholarship Newsletter - (FOS) News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. Newsletter, forum, FAQ and a comprehensive directory on electronic archives.
- Nature Debates: E-Access - Online forum hosted by Nature Online concerning the impact of the web on the future of publishing and the dissemination of scientific information.
- Eprints.org - Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving.
- Online or Invisible? - Article by Steve Lawrence appeared in Nature (2001) analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited, free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact.
- Information Liberation - Examines radical alternatives for replacing mass media with network media, abolishing intellectual property, and changing social institutions that create a demand for surveillance. Free full text in html and pdf.
- Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement - Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship initiative.
Wikipedia Articles
- Access Theory - Access theory, when used in discussing political science, states that the purpose of the 1st Amendment is to provide the citizens of the United States with free access to information.
- Constructal theory - The constructal theory of global optimization under local constraints explains in a simple manner the shapes that arise in nature. It is the thought that flow architecture comes from a principle of maximization of flow access, in time, and in flow configuration that are free to morph.