Budapest Open Access Initiative Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet.
Eprints.org Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving.
For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and why to free the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving, now - a manifesto by Stevan Harnad.
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.
Create Change 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.
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.
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.
Self-Archiving FAQ 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.
Creating a global knowledge network 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.
First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights 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.
