Open Access Publishing Resources

Declarations and Statements

• Berlin Declaration
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• The Hague Declaration
• Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles
• OASPA Offers Support on the Implementation of Plan S

Best practice guides

• Implementing a data policy: a how-to guide for publishers
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing by COPE, DOAJ, OASPA and WAME are available in English here, French here, Spanish here, Portuguese here, and Korean here.
• Basic guide to best practices in licensing and attribution in open access publishing – OASPA
• Licensing FAQ – OASPA
• OASPA posts on licensing in Open Access Publishing
• OASPA posts on attribution in Open Access Publishing
• OASPA posts on Creative Commons licensing

Open Access Publishing Websites

• OASPA
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Open Access Directory
• Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)
• Open Journals Systems (OJS)

Author Resources

• AuthorAid
• OA Books Toolkit
• HowOpenIsIt? The Open Access Spectrum guide – issued by PLOS, SPARC and OASPA
• Think. Check. Submit. – helping researchers to make informed publication choices

Open Access Publishing Books

• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• The Access Principle – John Willinsky
• Open Access – Peter Suber
• Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future – Martin Paul Eve

Resources by Region