Background Information

Copyright

 * Republican Study: Committee on Intellectual Property: Brief

FRPAA

 * Federal Research Public Access Act - 2008

Blogs

 * http://www.gray-area.co.za
 * http://scholarship20.blogspot.com

Budapest Open Access Initiative

 * http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/BOAI

Research

 * http://www.sciencemodel.net
 * http://www.cfses.com/EI-ASPM/SCLCM-V7/actuse12576.htm

History

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

Wiki

 * http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki

News

 * http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/10/where-puck-wont-be.html
 * http://thesiswhisperer.com/2013/09/04/how-to-start-an-open-access-journal
 * http://socialevolutionforum.com/2013/07/25/demise-of-greedy-publishers-part-i
 * http://socialevolutionforum.com/2013/08/01/the-impending-demise-of-greedy-for-profit-scientific-publishers-part-ii
 * http://www.academicproductivity.com/2012/when-your-users-tell-you-you-are-not-adding-value-boycott-against-elsevier
 * Open access to knowledge will boost Africa’s development
 * A shout to the world’s technical journals
 * https://www.martineve.com/2012/07/13/starting-an-open-access-journal-a-step-by-step-guide-table-of-contents/
 * Libraries as Journal Publishers
 * http://infospace.ischool.syr.edu/2012/05/29/academic-journals-are-too-expensive-for-harvard-elsevier-is-mega-greedy-and-why-this-stinks-for-future-librarians
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/01/wikipedia-research-jimmy-wales-online
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices
 * http://www.economist.com/node/21552574
 * http://chronicle.com/article/Hot-Type-An-Open-Letter-to/131397/
 * http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/2012-nobelists-lofgren.pdf
 * http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/elsevier-publishing-boycott-gathers-steam-among-academics/35216
 * http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/ismaillagardien/2011/12/30/theres-something-odious-about-academic-publishing/
 * http://chronicle.com/article/The-Research-Bust/129930/
 * http://archaeopop.blogspot.com/2011/12/academic-publishers-suicide-bombers.html
 * http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-princeton-academics-copyright-journalpublishers.html
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/world/europe/19iht-educLede19.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist
 * http://gigaom.com/2011/07/21/pirate-bay-jstor/

Insight

 * Vannevar Bush - 1945 - The Atlantic Monthly - Memex
 * Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 1948 - Article 26 - Everyone has the right to education
 * Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation - 2009 - National Bureau of Economic Research
 * Mark Shuttleworth - Open Access Day - 2010 - Isle of Man - Standing on the shoulders of giants
 * Lawrence Lessig - CERN - 2011 - The architecture of access to scientific knowledge: just how badly we have messed this up
 * BBC - Sean Coughlan - 28 September 2011 - Battle of the knowledge superpowers
 * Crowd Science: The Organization of Scientific Research in Open Collaborative Projects - 2012 - Social Science Research Network

Web References

 * http://oa.sun.ac.za
 * http://www.righttoresearch.org
 * http://scholarlyoa.com
 * http://www.openoasis.org
 * http://www.createchange.org
 * http://www.journalprices.com
 * http://www.epublishingtrust.org
 * http://thecostofknowledge.com
 * http://whoneedsaccess.org