Open Access / Scholarly Publishing Resources
General Sources
Electronic Journals and Public Access: Changes in Scholarly Communication. National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/ejournals/
Scholarly Communication: Issues for Health Sciences Libraries in Clinical Settings. National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/ejournals/nonacad.html
Association of Research Libraries Create Change Initiative
http://www.createchange.org/index.html
Scholarly Communications Issues. Medical Library Association.
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/publish/
Open Access Now. BioMed Central.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess
SPARC Open Access Newsletter. The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
Open Access Publishers
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com
PLoS. Public Library of Science.
http://www.plos.org
Support for Open Access
Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.soros.org/openaccess
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
IFLA Supports Open Access Movement. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
http://www.ifla.org/V/press/oa240204.html
Medical Library Association Statement on Open Access
http://www.mlanet.org/government/info_access/openaccess_statement.html
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org
Wellcome Trust
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/index.htm
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Statement on Sharing Research Data
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-032.html
NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (policy revised on Jan. 11, 2008)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html
NIH Public Access
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system
http://www.nihms.nih.gov/
Research Councils of the United Kingdom Updated Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/2006statement.pdf 
Scholarly Society/Association Viewpoints
Society for Scholarly Publishing
http://www.sspnet.org/
Studies of Scientific Research Publishing
The Facts About Open Access. Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.
http://www.alpsp.org/Ebusiness/ProductCatalog/Product.aspx?ID=47
Profiles of Major Media Groups
http://ketupa.net
Impact Factors
The Impact of Open Access Journals (Thompson ISI)
http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/openaccesscitations2.pdf
2006 Impact Factors for PLoS Journals. Public Library of Science.
http://www.plos.org/cms/node/233
Impact Factor Joined by Eigenfactor and H-Index. Society for Scholarly Publishing.
http://www.sspnet.org/News/Impact_Factor_Joined_by_Eigenfac/news.aspx
PubMed Central
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
Institutional Repository Services
BioMed Central Open Repository
http://www.biomedcentral.com/libraries/openrepository
Digital Commons
http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/
Data Harvesting
OAIster
http://www.oclc.org/oaister/
Open Archives Initiative
http://www.openarchives.org/
Copyright & Intellectual Property
SHERPA
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/about/
Discussion List
LIBLICENSE-L Discussion List
http://liblicense.crl.edu/
This webliography is based on significant work done by Mary Ryan, Director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library.
