These links are to tools to help understand the current status of issues related
to scholarly communications and open access to research.
SPARC FAQ on the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA).
FRPAA is a bipartisan Senate bill
sponsored by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT). SPARC provides information for
University Administrators and Faculty including potential impact and how to support the bill.
ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit
The Association of College and Research Libraries has developed this Toolkit to help administrators, faculty
and librarians understand the key issues, the impact of these issues, and strategies to work for change in
scholarly communication. Many references and links to other resources provide access to in-depth discussions
about scholarly communication and open access issues.
Directory of Open Access Journals
"The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific
and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages."
Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR supports the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to
research Information. "
Open DOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access
repositories. Each Open DOAR repository has been visited by project
staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does
not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories."
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
"Selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources
that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet."
Bergstom and McAfee's Journal Cost Effectiveness Search
The 2006 beta verion of a tool that calculates "price per article and price per
citation for about 5000 academic journals." The earlier version of this tool is available from a
link on this page.