Further Reading
- An excellent Open Access quiz that covers many of the key issues https://www.lepublikateur.de/2018/08/27/open-access-quiz/
- A recently-released film about Open Access in academia, ‘Paywall: The Business of Scholarship’ https://paywallthemovie.com/
- An introduction to Open Access by Peter Suber http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
- A set of Open Access resources by the Authors Alliance https://www.authorsalliance.org/resources/open-access-portal/
- A list of blogs that discuss Open Access and related issues http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Blogs_about_OA
- Directory of Open Access Books https://www.doabooks.org/
- Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/
- OAPEN Library http://www.oapen.org/home
- Registry of Open Access Repositories http://roar.eprints.org/
- Radical Open Access Collective http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/ (including an information portal – primarily of interest to publishers but useful for academics too http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/resources/)
- Two online resources aimed at making UK copyright law accessible https://www.copyrightuser.org/ and https://copyrightliteracy.org/
- Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts, an Open Access book by the Authors Alliance https://www.authorsalliance.org/2018/10/15/announcing-the-authors-alliance-guide-to-understanding-and-negotiating-book-publication-contracts/
- A rights statement selection decision tree from rightsstatements.org ly/RightsTool
- A report produced by Universities UK in July 2018 on Open Access monographs https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2018/open-access-monographs-report.pdf
- ‘Open Access Monographs Misrepresented’, a blogpost by Martin Paul Eve https://www.martineve.com/2017/08/03/open-access-monographs-misrepresented/
- Two recent posts on Plan S from Danny Kingsley https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2163 and Martin Paul Eve https://www.martineve.com/2018/10/03/on-the-practical-implementation-of-plan-s/
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