• Further details on this open access pilot in FP7 can be found on: http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/open_access
• Other related Commission activities: http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/scientific_information and http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm
• Directory of open access journals: http://www.doaj.org
• Directory of open access repositories: http://www.opendoar.org
• Registry of open access repositories: http://roar.eprints.org
• Registry of open access repository material archiving policies: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
• Research funders’ guidelines/mandates/policies: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php
• Publisher and journal policies: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Contact: RTD-open-access@ec.europa.eu

• Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

via “Green, Blue, Yellow, White & Gold - A brief guide to the open access rainbow.” Bill Hubbard Repositories Support Project. (aka. Notingham colour guide) http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/sherpaplusdocs/Nottingham-colour-guide.pdf

related: List of some open access journals

“The problem of highly priced science journals is well-known. A wave of mergers in the publishing business has created giant firms with the power to extract ever higher journal prices from university libraries. As a result, libraries are continually being forced to cough up more money or cut their journal subscriptions. It's really become a crisis. Luckily, there are also two counter-trends at work. In mathematics and physics, more and more papers are available from a free electronic database called the arXiv, and journals are beginning to let papers stay on this database even after they are published. In the life sciences, PubMed Central plays a similar role. There are also a growing number of free journals, especially in mathematics. Many of these are peer-reviewed, and most are run by academics instead of large corporations.”

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/journals.html

“Along with SOPA and PIPA, our government is contemplating another acronym with deplorable consequences for the free dissemination of information: RWA, the Research Works Act. This is a bill to, it says, “ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector”, where the important phrase is “private sector” — it's purpose is to guarantee that for-profit corporations retain control over the publication of scientific information”

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/01/elsevier_evil.php

“The Dutch publisher Elsevier publishes many of the world’s best known mathematics journals […] For many years, it has also been heavily criticized for its business practices. Let me briefly summarize these criticisms.”

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/