Open access projects

volunteer effort to digitize and archive books

Sci-Hub is a shadow library that provides free access to millions of research papers, regardless of copyright, by bypassing publishers' paywalls in various ways. Unlike Library Genesis, it does not provide access to books. Sci-Hub was founded in Kazakhstan by Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011, in response to the rising costs of research papers behind paywalls. The site is extensively used worldwide. In September 2019, the site's operator(s) said that it served approximately 400,000 requests per day. In addition to its intensive use, Sci-Hub stands out among other shadow libraries because of its easy

Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis (LibGen), among other sources. It calls itself "the largest truly open library in human history", and has said it aims to "catalog all the books in existence" and "track humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form". It claims not to be liable for downloads of copyrighted works since it does not directly host any files, instead linking to third-party downloads. It has nonetheless been targeted for engaging in large-scale copyright infringement, facing government blocks and legal action from rightsholders and publishing trade associations.

digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries

protocol to harvest metadata

global event in support of Open Access to scientific publications

international alliance of academic libraries

organization

manifesto for radical Open Access

a plan for the future of open access in scholarly publishing

metadata reservation project for e-journals

collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data

thumb|right|thumbtime=68|A video by Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition|SPARC in support of the campaign. thumb|A normalized heatmap of per-capita signatures to the petition by U.S. state. Highest support from Massachusetts (red), lowest from [[Mississippi (white).]] thumb|The Access2Research Founders, Heather Joseph, [[John Wilbanks, Michael W. Carroll and Mike Rossner after meeting at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.]] Access2Research is a campaign in the United States for academic journal publishing reform led by open access advocates Michael W. Car

online archive of anarchism-related written works