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Open access publishing

Here are entered works on publishing on the public Internet, allowing users to read, copy, distribute, and print texts without copyright restrictions.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Electronic publishing

• Open access publishing -- Bibliography
• Open access publishing -- Developing countries
• Open access publishing -- Europe
• Open access publishing -- European Union countries
• Open access publishing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Open access publishing -- New Zealand
• Open access publishing -- Periodicals
• Open access publishing -- Social aspects
• Open access publishing -- Surveys
• Open access publishing -- United States

• Open access to research
• Research, Open access to

• Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness (London and New York: Routledge, 2024), by Stephen Pinfield (PDF and Epub with commentary at Taylor and Francis)
• Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2023), by Peter Baldwin (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Plan S for Shock: Science, Shock, Solution, Speed (London: Ubiquity Press, c2022), by Robert-Jan H. M. Smits and Rachael Pells, contrib. by Randy W. Schekman
  • multiple formats with commentary at Ubiquity Press
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), ed. by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray (PDF files at MIT)
• Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002-2011 (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2016), by Peter Suber (multiple formats with commentary at MIT Press)
• Guide to Open Access Monograph Publishing for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Researchers: Helping Researchers to Understand the Opportunities and Challenges of Publishing a Scholarly Monograph in Open Access (2015), by Ellen Collins, Caren Milloy, and Graham Stone, ed. by James Baker, Martin Paul Eve, and Ernesto Priego (PDF at wellcome.org)
• Issues in Open Research Data (London: Ubiquity Press, c2014), ed. by Samuel A. Moore (multiple formats with commentary at Ubiquity Press)
• Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014), by Martin Paul Eve (PDF files with commentary at cambridge.org)
• Open Content: A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences (2014), by Till Kreutzer (HTML and PDF with commentary at wikimedia.org)
• Open Access (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Peter Suber (multiple formats with commentary at MIT Press)
• Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing (2010), by Co-Action Publishing and Lunds universitetsbibliotek (HTML at doaj.org)
• Open Access and Libraries: Essays from Cites and Insights, 2001-2009 (c2010), by Walt Crawford (PDF at waltcrawford.name)
• The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (2005), by John Willinsky (PDF at MIT Press)
• Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023), ed. by Maria Bonn, Josh Bolick, and Will Cross (PDF at ala.org)
• #Open Textbook Tweet: Driving the Awareness and Adoption of Open Textbooks (Cupertino, CA: THINKaha, 2010), by Sharyn Fitzpatrick (PDF with commentary at wikieducator.org)
• Open Science, Open Data, Open Source: 21st Century Research Skills for the Life Sciences (2017), by Pedro L. Fernandes and Rutger Vos (illustrated HTML at github.io)
• Open: The Philosophy and Practices That are Revolutionizing Education and Science (London: Ubiquity Press, 2017), ed. by Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener (multiple formats wth commentary at Ubiquity Press)
• The Academic Book of the Future (New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), ed. by Rebecca E. Lyons and Samantha J. Rayner (multiple formats at palgrave.com)
• Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement (London: Ubiquity Press, c2016), ed. by Gabriel Bodard and Matteo Romanello, contrib. by Stella Dee, Maryam Foradi, Filip Šaric, Simon Mahony, Simona Stoyanova, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, Francesco Mambrini, Segolene Tarte, Alberto Campagnolo, Alejandro Giacometti, L. W. MacDonald, Melissa M. Terras, Adam Gibson, Valeria Vitale, Bridget Almas, Marie-Claire Beaulieu, James Brusuelas, and Silvia Orlandi
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Made With Creative Commons (Copenhagen: Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books, c2017), by Paul Stacey and Sarah H. Pearson (multiple formats with commentary at creativecommons.org)
• The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why It Doesn't Feel Like Victory (London: Ubiquity Press, 2014), by Martin Weller (multiple formats at ubiquitypress.com)
• Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.org)
• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)
• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)
• Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library (2006), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)
• Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe (2006), contrib. by M. Dewatripont, Victor Ginsburgh, Patrick Legros, Alexis Walckiers, Jean-Pierre Devroey, Marianne Dujardin, Françoise Vandooren, Pierre Dubois, Jérôme Foncel, Marc Ivaldi, and Marie-Dominique Heusse (PDF with commentary in Europe)
• Gold Open Access Journals (multiple editions, with data), by Walt Crawford (PDF files with commentary at waltcrawford.name)
• The Open Data Handbook, by Open Knowledge Foundation (HTML and PDF at opendatahandbook.org)

• Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography (c2010), by Charles W. Bailey (PDF with commentary at digital-scholarship.org)

• Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Education (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe: OpenAIRE Study on the Development of Open Access Repository Communities in Europe (2012), by Birgit Schmidt and Iryna Kuchma (PDF in Germany)

• Safe to Be Open: Study on the Protection of Research Data and Recommendations for Access and Usage (2013), ed. by Lucie M. C. R. Guibault and Andreas Wiebe (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Understanding Open Access: When, Why, and How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible (c2015), by Lexi Rubow, Rachael Shen, and Brianna Schofield (PDF with commentary at authorsalliance.org)

• A Quiet Revolution: Growing Creative Commons in Aotearoa New Zealand (2015), by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand (Organisation) (Epub with commentary in New Zealand)

• Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (2012-) (full serial archives)

• Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), ed. by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray (PDF files at MIT)

• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)

• Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research (c2018), by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Future of Taxpayer-Funded Research: Who Will Control Access to the Results? (Washington: Committee for Economic Development, 2012), by Elliot E. Maxwell and Kevin Bryan (PDF with commentary at ced.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Transition from Paper: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? (2001), ed. by R. Stephen Berry and Anne Simon Moffat (HTML at amacad.org)
• The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead (1998), by James A. Dewar (HTML at rand.org)
• Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing (1995), ed. by Ann Okerson and James J. O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of MPub: New Perspectives on Technology and Publishing (Vancouver: CCSP Press, c2010), ed. by Vanessa Chan, Cari Ferguson, Kathleen Fraser, Cynara Geissler, Ann-Marie Metten, and Suzette Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• University Publishing in a Digital Age (2007), by Laura Brown, Rebecca J. Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff (PDF with commentary at ithaka.org)
• Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup (c1996), by Eve Maler and Jeanne El Andaloussi (HTML with commentary at xmlgrrl.com)
• Internet Publishing with Acrobat (c1996), by Gordon Kent (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• What is the Text Encoding Initiative? How to Add Intelligent Markup to Digital Resources (Marseille: OpenEdition Press, 2014), by Lou Burnard (HTML with commentary at openedition.org)
• Spinning the Web: A Guide to Serving Information on the Internet (first edition, 1994), by Andrew Ford (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Art of Electronic Publishing, by Sandy Ressler
  • frame-dependent HTML at Prentice Hall
  • simpler HTML at Prentice Hall
• Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, by TEI Consortium (HTML with commentary at tei-c.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.