January 29, 2008

More Open Access and Open Education resources

We've added a few resources to INFOMINE recently on the open access movement/debate and open education. This recent blog entry lists OpenCourseWare websites. Today we present a few items from the What's New page as well as several other resources from the INFOMINE database.

Open Access Webliography
Guide to online resources related to the open access movement. Includes "starting points," directories, organizations, blogs and more.

OpenCourseWare Finder
Search hundreds of OpenCourseWare offerings provided by universities or browse OCW courses by subject.

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Registry of nearly 1,000 institutional repositories and open access ejournals.

Association of Research Libraries : Scholarly Communication
ARL page on scholarly communication. Topics include: new models of publishing, libraries in the marketplace, copyright and intellectual property, and licensing. Also features news on the open access movement and scholarly publishing companies.

Public Knowledge Project
Publications, research, software and other information on electronic scholarly publishing, the open access movement, knowledge management, archives harvesting and technical innovations in the information sciences.

ALA Scholarly Communication Toolkit
Articles, resources, and other tools for advocating changes in the process of scholarly communication. Site covers key areas of concern and strategies for change for academic administration, faculty, researchers, and librarians.

Of special note:

Open Access News
Peter Suber's blog is an essential reference to all the goings-on in OA.