Open Access

Compendium of OA-related sites.

Provides scholars with a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) to distinguish researchers.

ResearchGate is the professional network for scientists and researchers. Over 17 million members from all over the world use it to share, discover, and discuss research.

The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a coalition of patient groups, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, publishers, and health-promotion organizations that support barrier-free access to taxpayer-funded research.

COPIM is a partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, publishers and infrastructure providers, building community-owned, open systems to enable OA book publishing.

Digital solutions for UK education and research, including developing services, providing support, and influencing policy to enable UK higher-ed to realize the rewards of OA.

Enables institutions to support OA publication.

Organized by SPARC, Open Access Week is a global event for the academic and research community to learn about the benefits of OA, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire participation in helping to make OA a new norm in academia.

Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open Internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works.

The Right to Research Coalition was founded by students in the summer of 2009 to promote an open scholarly publishing system based on the belief that no student should be denied access to the articles they need because their institution cannot afford the often high cost of access.

The blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Great OA-related discussions.

SPARC is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education.

Brings together scholars, universities, libraries, and presses to fund / create a sustainable open monograph ecosystem.