Electronic Society for Social Scientists:
ELSSS. A non-profit society dedicated to the production of low-cost
electronic scholarly journals in the social sciences, particularly
in economics. Its journals are not free, but they do pay authors and
referees, let authors keep the copyright in their articles, and give
subscriptions free to libraries in developing countries.
http://www.elsss.org.uk/
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication:
ICAAP. Technological support for the delivery of scholarly content.
Develops protocols for the delivery of scholarly content, provides
software for journal management and publication, hosts a database of
free scholarly journals and resources.
http://www.icaap.org/
Open Society Institute:
OSI. Promotes the development and maintenance of open societies
around the world through an array of activities dealing with
educational, social, legal, and health care reform.
http://www.soros.org/osi.html
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition:
SPARC. Consortium of universities, research libraries, and
organizations. Aims to enhance broad and cost-effective access to
peer-reviewed scholarship.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/home/index.asp?page=0
Center for the Public Domain:
A philanthropic organization funding projects (grant making,
original research, conferences, and collaborative programs) to
enhance american public domain, including free digital content and
efforts to counteract recent trends in copyright and patent law.
http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/
Public Library of Science:
PLoS. Non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the
world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to
scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free
access online journals and eprints archives.
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
Signal Hill:
European partnership for academic publishing aiming to create a
community of practice for organisations engaged in electronic
academic publishing. Directory of open access projects, initiatives
and electronic archives by country.
http://www.signal-hill.org
