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Open Access/Scholarly Publishing Links

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. April 2001 - ASBMB Response to PubMed Central and the Public Library of Science Boycott.

http://www.asbmb.org/ASBMB/site.nsf/web/27767179A498683085256C7C00535A66?OpenDocument

Asssociation of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. Response to Science and Technology Committee Inquiry Into Scientific Publications.

http://www.alpsp.org/2004pdfs/S&TcommALPSPresponse.pdf

Biomed Central

http://www.biomedcentral.com

BioMed Central's Web Site with Links to House of Commons Science and Technology Committee into Scientific Publications. Includes commentary from scholarly societies, commercial publishers, open access publishers, and funding agencies.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/

Highwire Press

http://highwire.stanford.edu

The Impact of Open Access Journals: A Citation Study from Thomson ISI, 2004.

http://www.isinet.com/media/presentrep/acropdf/impact-oa-journals.pdf

Nature Web Focus: Access to the Literature: The Debate Continues.

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/

Open Access and Not-For-Profit Publishers.

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/2.html

Open Access and Scholarly Publishing: Presentation to the UTHSCSA Library Advisory Committee, April 1, 2004, by Rajia Tobia, Associate Library Director for Collection Development.

http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/publications/powerpoint/OpenAccessLibComm4-01-04.ppt

Public Library of Science.

http://www.plos.org

PubMed Central.

http://www.pubmedcentral.gov

SPARC.

http://www.arl.org/sparc

Wellcome Trust: Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd003182.pdf

Statements from Organizations about Scholarly Publishing or Open Access

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm

Budapest Open Access Initiative.

http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

Create Change.

http://www.createchange.org/index.html

Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science.

www.dcprinciples.org/

Wellcome Trust Position Paper on Open Access.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtvispolpub.html