Important links
General information
- The information portal open-access.net. Also features news, details of events, links and a mailing list [German]
- DFG, the German Research Foundation's information on open access
- The monthly newsletter of the online journal Forum: Qualitative Social Research which has a section devoted to open access news
- Open Access News (Peter Suber)
- Information on open access in Wikipedia
- The Coalition for Action "Copyright for Education and Research"
History and current status
- Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003)
- EU-Petition for Guaranteed Public Access to Publicly-funded Research Results
- Timeline of the Open Access Movement



