Important links

General information

• The information portal open-access.net. Also features news, details of events, links and a mailing list
• DFG, the German Research Foundation's information on open access
• Special Issue "OPEN ACCESS", Information: Wissenschaft und Praxis (IWP) 5/2009, German Society for Information (DGI), edited by Gerhard Fröhlich (in German)
• 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

Open-access journals and repositories

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Open access journals of qualitative research
• Registry of Open Access Repositories  
• Directory of Open Access Repositories