The Open Access (OA) movement is about barrier free, online access to scholarly literature for readers. Rather than locking away scholarship and providing access only to paying institutions, it is about free access to research for everyone.

• A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
  Short one page introduction to the vocabulary or Open Access, by Peter Suber.
• Open Access Overview
  An introduction to Open Access for those who are new to the concept, by Peter Suber
• Open Access
  An open access book written by Peter Suber and published by MIT Press in 2012. It is a great resource on Open Access.
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
  The Open Society Institute passed the Budapest Open Access Initiative, a declaration about the rights of open access.

Faculty Resources

• What Faculty Can Do to Promote Open Access
  A short handout about ways that faculty can promote Open Access on their Campuses.
• SPARC Author Addendum
  Booklet that contains helpful information for authors wanting to keep copyright rights.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
  Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
• Directory of Open Access Repositories
  An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.