4 Organizations that Support the Library Institutional Repository
Who are the Organizations that Support Library IRs?
Below is an iterative list of organizations that support Library IRs, and the work that goes on related to them.
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Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions
The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) brings together representatives from North American universities with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies. It was formed to share information and experiences and to illuminate opportunities for moving faculty-led open access forward at member institutions and advocating for open access nationally and internationally. COAPI will offer a collection of best and evolving practices to act as a roadmap for inspiring, promoting and implementing open access policies at institutions without existing or effective open access policies. -
Creative Commons is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
- Library Publishing Coalition
The LPC is an independent, community-led membership association of academic and research libraries and library consortia engaged in scholarly publishing. -
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association: OASPA
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association is a non-profit trade association representing the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines. -
PLOS | Public Library of Science
PLOS is a non-profit open-access science, technology, and medicine publisher, innovator, and advocacy organization with a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license.
- OpenDOAR
An authoritative and searchable directory of academic open access repositories.
- ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)
The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world.
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RightsStatements.org provides a set of standardized rights statements that can be used to communicate the copyright and re-use status of digital objects to the public. These can be useful in repositories and other digital collections such as digital cultural heritage.
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Initiative started by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Center for Open Science to create a searchable open database of funded research with an available API for institutional repositories
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List of resources including Big Deal Knowledge Base, Transitioning Your Journal from Subscription to Open Access, and SPARC Landscape Analysis
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A compendium of simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.
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Information about the initiative for Open Access publishing supported by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders.
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SPA-OPS Transformative Agreement Toolkit
Society Publishers Accelerating Open Access and Plan S developed this toolkit as a starting point in drafting transformative agreement offers.
- Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
A documentary that focuses on the need for open access to research and science. It is free to stream and download, for private or public use, and maintains the most open CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons designation. The website provides instructions on how to provide a public screening.
- Sherpa Romeo
An online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
An open database of free scholarly articles harvested from over 50,000 publishers and repositories. Unpaywall also offers a browser extension that finds open access versions of articles.
- Which organizations do you think would be most helpful for information on Institutional Repositories?
- Are there other organizations that you think are useful?
