Open Access Primer

Activist movements

• Right to Research Coalition
  Student-led groups from around the world:  “Access to Research is a Student Right.”

• SPARC Europe
  Advocating change in scholarly communication for research and society.

• SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) North America 
  Early advocates for OA for publicly funded research.

• Creative Commons "When we share, everyone wins"
  Ppromotes methods to "legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world." 

• OAD: Advocacy organizations for OA
  Goes beyond providing open access, to other means of promotion.

Keywords: open access publishing, open peer review, open data, open courseware, open educational resources (OERs), open source software, open repositories, open knowledge, open content licenses, open standards, open metadata, open science, open government