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	Public Library of Science URL: http://www.plos.org/ ODP description: PLoS. 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.
	Eprints.org URL: http://www.eprints.org/ ODP description: Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving. Page title: EPrints for Digital Repositories
	Budapest Open Access Initiative URL: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ ODP description: Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. Page description: The Budapest Open Access Initiative: an international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet.
	Create Change URL: http://www.createchange.org/ ODP description: A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. Main issues concern subscription prices for scholarly journals and help for journals willing to find publishing options better suited to their academic missions. Page title: Create Change \| Shouldn't the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet?
	Free Online Scholarship Newsletter URL: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ ODP description: (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. Page title: Peter Suber, Open Access to Science and Scholarship Page description: News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge.
	First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights URL: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_6/kelsey/ ODP description: Introducing the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain. Page title: The Street Performer Protocol and Digital Copyrights
	Online or Invisible? URL: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/online-nature01/ ODP description: 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. Page title: Online or Invisible? [Steve Lawrence; NEC Research Institute] Page description: Online or Invisible? Article analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited. Edited version appears in Nature. Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact.
	Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement URL: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm ODP description: Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship initiative. Page title: Peter Suber, "Guide to the Open Access Movement" (formerly: "Guide to the FOS Movement") Page description: Guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship movement.
	Nature Debates: E-Access URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html ODP description: Online forum hosted by Nature Online concerning the impact of the web on the future of publishing and the dissemination of scientific information. Page title: Nature Debates: e-access
	Rights Metadata for Open archiving URL: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html ODP description: (RoMEO) A project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee to investigate the rights issues surrounding the self-archiving of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative's protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI). Legal issues, surveys, links to related discussions. Page title: Project RoMEO
	Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing URL: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/eworld.html ODP description: A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic communication, its impact and consequences. Page title: eworld.html
	Self-Archiving FAQ URL: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ ODP description: Answers to frequently asked questions about self archiving including what and how. Has a "I worry about..." set of questions too with advice and answers to issues.
	Information Liberation URL: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/index.html ODP description: 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. Page title: Information Liberation, by Brian Martin (London: Freedom Press, 1998) Page description: Information Liberation, by Brian Martin (London: Freedom Press, 1998). Full text in html and pdf
	Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing URL: http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/ ODP description: An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future. Page title: Association of Research Libraries :: Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing
	Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities URL: http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html ODP description: 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. Page title: Open Access
	Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/26/politics/26LIBR.html?ex=1057638190&ei=1&en=24bfe95d73754002 ODP description: A group challenging the power of established scientific journals says legislation will be introduced to make the results of all federally financed research available to the public. Page title: The New York Times > Log In
	American Scientist Forum on Open Access URL: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html ODP description: Forum devoted to the freeing of online access to the peer-reviewed research literature. Continuous since 1998. Page title: Archives of AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
	Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives URL: http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html ODP description: How to free access to scientific literature: papers by one of the leaders of the open archives initiative. Page title: Eprints by Stevan Harnad on Online Research Communication and Open Access
	Creating a global knowledge network URL: http://lanl.arxiv.org/blurb/pg01unesco.html ODP description: Considerations on how to build a knowledge network for research communication and on its potential impact, by P. Ginsparg, one of the founders of ArXiv.
	Declaration of San JosÃ© - Towards the Virtual Health Library URL: http://www.bireme.br/bvs/por/ideclar.htm ODP description: An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'. Page title: Declaration of San JosÃ© towards the Virtual Health Library