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Open Access Initiatives (incl. Developing Countries)
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Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication: Open Access Initiatives (incl. Developing Countries)
This LibGuide provides useful information about the Open Access Movement, open access publishing and open scholarly communication trends.
Intro
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What is Open Access (Green Route)?
What is Open Access (Gold Route)?
Open Access Initiatives (incl. Developing Countries)
IFLA and eIFL and Open Access
OA Policies/Guidelines
The Public Domain
Benefits of Open Access
OA@Wits
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Wits Open Access Policy 2018
Wits OA Brochure
Wits Author's Addendum
Open Access Events at Wits (2012-2019)
Open Access Week Events - December 2020
Wits Open Education Resources Strategy
OA Books
OA Journals
OA Libraries/IRs/ETDs
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Intro/Guidelines re: Digital Libraries/IRs
Finding OA ETDS & Repositories
Digital Libraries/ETDs/Scholarly Repositories
Digital Libraries/ETDs/Scholarly Repositories (South Africa)
Accredited Journals (incl.OA)
OA Media & Law
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OA Films/Videos/
OA Music
OA Podcasts/Blogs
Vimeos on OA
OA Images/Photos
Open Source
OERS
A2K
Authors' Rights
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Wits Addendum to Publication Agreement
OA & Scholarly Communication
OA Publishers
Predatory Publishers
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Fake Conferences
Beall's List Closes - Articles about the closure
Research Metrics
Research Process
Library
Open Access Initiatives & Declarations
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) :: SCOAP3: A New Model for Scholarly Communication
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Berlin Declaration Text
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Cape Town Open Education Declaration
Declaration on OA signed in Cape Town 2011
Digital Open Access Initiatives in Health Information: Oman Medical Journal as a Model
Open Learning Initiative
Sivulile : Open Access in South Africa
Timeline of Open Access Movement
Open Access Leadership Summit, Botswana 2007
The African Access to Knowledge Alliance (AAKA)
Dakar Declaration on Open Access in Africa and the Global South
Open Access in South Africa
The state of the nation 2011 – government policy and open access in South Africa –
The State of the Nation – South African scholarly publishing and the global knowledge divide –
Open Access in Africa
Africa Portal
AfricaBib Home
Connecting-Africa | Home
Hadithi - YouTube
Open Access Wikis
Open Access Wiki (Stellenbosch University)
Wikis about OA
Open Access in Developing Countries
Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development
Access to knowledge – the times they are a’changing –
Barriers to open access to scientific information in Kenya, with particular reference to agricultural information
Bibliotheca Alexandria : Access to Knowledge: New Tools for Dissemination of Knowledge
Biomed Central and Open Access in Africa
Building Open Access in Africa (Williams E. Nwagwu and Allam Ahmed)
Comparing OA/Non OA in Developing Countries
Copyright & Education: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge
Dazzling Technologies' : Addressing the Digital Divide in the Southern African Universities (P. Kotecha)
Directory of Open Access Journals - South African Publications
HINARI and the dream of free journal access - SciDev.Net
Open Access and the Developing World
Open access archiving: the fast track to building research capacity in developing countries (2005)
Open Access for Developing Countries Portal
Open Access in South Africa (Sivulile)
Open Access Scholarly Communication in South Africa: Current Status, Significance, and the Role for National Information Policy in the National System of Innovation (J.A. de Beer)
Open Access survey of Africa-published journals
Open Access to Knowledge and Information - Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives (Anup Kumar Das)
Open Access to Law in Developing Countries (Daniel Poulin)
Open Access to Science in the Developing World (P. Suber & Subbiah Arunachalam)
Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: towards equitable distribution of global knowledge (L. Chan & B. Kirsop)
Sabinet - African Journal Archive (OA)
Sabinet - Open Access Journals -
Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives (South Asia)
SciELO South Africa open access platform reaches wider audience
South Africa considers the SciELO model for its journals (2008)
South Africans told "Go Open"
South Perspective - How Developing Countries Can Manage Intellectual Property Rights to Maximize Access to Knowledge
The African Copyright & Access to Knowledge (ACA2K): a brief overview (Denise Nicholson)
The Economics of Open Access Publishing (C. Zimmermann)
The Stratified Economics of Open Access (J. Willinsky)
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