Open Access at UT Austin

cOAlition S is an international consortium of research organizations (primarily European based). They created Plan S which requires that scientific publications funded by public grants must be published open access.

Wiki with links to information about various aspects of open access - one of the most comprehensive OA resources available.

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is an advocacy organization that aims to improve access to research for all users. UT Austin is a SPARC member.

A browser extension for Chrome or Firefox that helps you find open versions of articles legally and for free.

An announcement and link to official memo about the Biden Administration's August 2022 open access policy guidance for federal granting agencies. All agencies need to implement public access policies, no later than December 31, 2025, to facilitate the immediate access to federally funded research outputs - specifically scholarly publications and digital data.

Edited volume from 2017 that shares stories, motives, insights, and practical tips about affordable education, transparent science, and accessible scholarship.

Book from 2020 about the relationship between theory and practice as it relates to open access and information science.

2020 edited volume that digs into politics, practices, and infrastructures of OA and the evolving digital scholarly communication ecosystem.

2018 article that evaluates the overall open access landscape in scholarly literature to assess the prevalence and characteristics of OA.

This classic 2012 book written by Peter Suber is a concise introduction to open access