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OpenUP Hub

OpenUP Hub is an open, dynamic and collaborative knowledge environment that systematically captures, organizes and categorizes research outcomes, best practices, tools, and guidelines relevant to review-dissemination-assessment phases of the research lifecycle through the prism of Open Science.

The Idealis

The Idealis is a new kind of open access overlay journal, powered by PressForward and curated by librarian-experts working in the arena of scholarly communication. Each week, editors recruit the very best scholarly communication literature from across the Web, working…

Episciences

Episciences.org is an innovative combination of the two routes of free access: the gold route by hosting journals in open access (overlay journals) and the green route where articles are submitted to these journals by depositing them in an open…

LingOA

Open Access publishing is often said to be the future of academic journals, but the actual move from a subscription model to an Open Access model is not easily achieved. Several international linguistics journals are currently moving from their traditional…

MathOA

MathOA is an organization modelled on LingOA, aimed at facilitating and accelerating the switch to open access publishing in mathematics (broadly interpreted), using the principles of what we call Fair Open Access (more details). To this end, we investigate publishers,…

PsyOA

The mission of PsyOA and the others in the Fair Open Access Alliance (LingOA, MathOA) is to help journals and scholarly societies make the transition to FairOA publishing. We provide information and sometimes apply for funding, so that authors won’t…

The Fair Open Access Alliance

We are a group of scholars and librarians aiming to help transform the conventions of scholarly publishing, and return control of the publication process to the scholarly community. The Fair Open Access Alliance is an overarching organization aimed at coordinating…

Paperity

Paperity is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, “gold” and “hybrid”. It: gives readers easy and unconstrained access to thousands of journals from hundreds of disciplines, in one central location; helps authors reach their target audience,…

The Open Journals

Open Journals is a collection of open source, open access journals. We currently have four main publications: The Journal of Open Source Software · The Journal of Open Source Education · The Open Journal of Astrophysics · …

Right to Research Coalition

The Right to Research Coalition was founded by students in the summer of 2009 to promote an open scholarly publishing system based on the belief that no student should be denied access to the articles they need because their institution…

SPARC Europe

SPARC Europe is one of Europe’s key and long-standing voices advocating for unfettered access to research and data — for the academic community; for the whole of society. More openness in research, we believe, will lead to an accelerated rate…