Open-Access Resources   Tags: full text, full-text, open access, open-access  

This page contains general information on open-access, such as ethical standards and information on major initiatives.

Committee on Publication Ethics Created in 1997, COPE provides editors and others with information and guidelines on publication ethics.

Scholarly Open Access Interesting and informative blog maintained by Jeffrey Beall, librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver. Reports on issues in open-access publishing and maintains a list of "predatory" publishers and questionable journals. The criteria for inclusion in these lists is clearly stated on the blog.

Open and Shut? Blog maintained by Richard Poynder, a long-time observer of the open-access movement.

NIH Public Access Policy Details of the National Institute of Health Public Access Policy

PKP: Public Knowledge Project This project, the result of collaboration between a number of universities, offers research findings and software, to assist in the publication of open-acess journals. The list of journals using the software does not mean that the journals' content is of high quality or that they follow ethical standards in publication. Some of the links on the list of publications are now broken or misdirecting.