Promotion of open access to knowledge in the sciences and humanities

Development of open access to research literature: In using the term 'open access‘, we mean the free availability of peer-reviewed literature on the public internet, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles (Budapest Open Access Initiative).

The project is implemented in cooperation with OSI Open Access Project, Electronic Information for Libraries Consortia (eIFL,net), Goethe-Insitut in Kiew and Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

Action plan on open access to research literature in 2007:

Awareness raising:

• Informational workshops for interested scholars, librarians and academic institutions encouraging research and higher educational institutions to practice open access;
• Continue development of a2k web-site (www.a2k.org.ua) in cooperation with NGO Privacy Ukraine;
• Informational workshops for the journalists about open access;
• Competition for the journalist writing about open access;
• Competitions of students researches about open access.

Development of Ukrainian network of institutional repositories and advocacy:

• Encouraging Universities, research and funding institutions to sign Budapest Open Access Initiative, Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, and Register self-archival policy;
• Development of pilot open access institutional repository (policies and procedures, software) — a pilot National Network of Open Access Repositories project launched by Informatio Consortia and Scientific Library of National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy in cooperation with Ukrainian educational and scientific institutions; Open Access repositories in Ukrainian Catholic University and Lviv National University.
• Training for the interested organizations;
• Grant competition for Universities creating institutional repositories.

Policy development and advocacy:

• Preparing policy paper on OA in Ukraine and investigation on economics of open access;
• Harmonization of national educational policy with open access movement, putting an open access condition to state funded researches (except reasonable exceptions) and cultural heritage, providing state fund and technical assistance to research and higher educational institutions to set up and maintain an open access repositories (a condition of government assistance should be that the institution adopt a policy to encourage or require its researchers to deposit their research output in the repository except reasonable exceptions) and cultural heritage.

Development of open access journals and advocacy:

• Facilitating including Ukrainian open access journals into Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ);
• Cooperation with Google Scholar about indexing Ukrainian open access journals;
• Consultations on development of open access journals;
• Grant competition for converting subscription based journal into open access or launching new open access journal.

Other partners: Internet Access and Training program (IATP) of International Researches and Exchanges Board (IREX), Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), Fulbright Exchange program, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Fundamental Researches State Fund, Parliamentary Committee for Education and Science, Internews Ukraine, Ukrainian Internet Society.

Some Relevant Links:

Organizations involved in open access movement:

• Open Society Institute
• eIFL
• SPARC
• SPARC Europe
• SciX Project
• Coalition for Networked Information
• UNESCO Information Program

Tutorials:

• Electronic Publishing in Higher Education. Recommendations
• Open Access Journal Business Guides: Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access v3; Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal v2; Model Business Plan: A Supplemental Guide for Open Access Journal Developers & Publishers
• A Guide to Institutional Repository Software v 2.0
• OSI EPrints Handbook
• OAI for Beginners — the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
• Electronic Publishing in Higher Education: How to design ОАІ-complaint interfaces. Recommendations
• Implementation Guidelines for the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

• Open Journal System, Public Knowledge Project

• DTD Tutorial
• SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide
• Open archives initiative service providers

Open Access Publishing Declarations:

• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities: 
• Science, Technology and Innovation for the 21st Century. Meeting of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy at Ministerial Level, 29-30 January 2004 — Final Communique
• IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation
• Declaration of Principles WSIS

Other resources:

• Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• The Directory of Open Access Repositories — OpenDOAR
• Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
• OAIster
• OAI: http://www.openarchives.org ; http://www.oaforum.org/
• Timeline of the Open Access Movement by Peter Suber

News and Listservs:

• SPARC Open Access Newsletter
• Open Access News (Peter Suber)
• American Scientist Open Access Forum
• Open Access Now
• OA Librarian

Subject repositories:

• E-LIS The open archive for Library and Information Science
• arXiv (Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology):http://www.arxiv.org/
• PubMed Central (U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature) http://www.pubmedcentral.org/
• BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/
• Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/

E-theses and dissertations: http://etdguide.org

National Open access Initiatives:

FAIR Program, UK

• Virtual museum
• DAEDALUS
• E-thesis
• ePrintsUK
• FAIR Enough
• HaIRST
• Arts & Humanities Data Service
• Portal
• RoMEO
• SHERPA
• TARDis
• http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk

DARE, Netherlands: http://www.surf.nl/dare ; http://www.darenet.nl/ ; http://www.igitur.nl/en/default.htm ; http://dare.uva.nl/en

DINI, Germany

Max Plank Society, Germany:

http://www.zim.mpg.de/ ; http://vlib.mpg.de/ ; http://edoc.mpg.de ; http://www.livingreviews.org/

Australian Universities: http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/39729 ; http://eprints.anu.edu.au/ ; http://eprint.monash.edu.au/ ; http://eprints.qut.edu.au/ ; http://epress.anu.edu.au/ ; http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/ ; http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/ ; http://www.sup.usyd.edu.au/ ; http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/dest/forum.html