Resources

What is Open Access?

A very brief introduction to Open Access by Peter Suber, research Professor at Earlham College

Information Resources

Peter Suber's Open Access News - A great source for up-to-date information on the Open Access movement

Initiatives

Budapest Open Access Initiative - One of the first statements to support Open Access

Berlin Declaration

Open Archives Initiative - Initative to establish a standard for Metadata Harvesting

Directories & Databases

Directory of Open Access Journals

Public Library of Science

PubMed Central - U.S. National Institute of Health's free digital archive of biomedical and life science journal literature

OAIster - Initiative to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources

arXiv - Open access to a large body of e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology

Other

Creative Commons Initiative - similar goal as Open Access

GNU.org - Home of the GNU operating system, the GNU General Public License and the Free Software Foundation

Open Source Initiative (OSI)

Copyleft as opposed to "copyright" is a term referring to software or works that are free for everyone. Modified or extended -versions of such software or works are required to remain free as well.