Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 2022.
This organization is self-described as a “pioneer in voluntary collective licensing” and helps organizations “integrate, access and share information through licensing, content, software and professional services.” The website includes a library of white papers, e-books, infographics, podcast episodes and videos.
Open Access, SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), 2022.
SPARC is self-described as “a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports systems for research and education that are open by default and equitable by design.” SPARC defines open access as “the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access is the needed modern update for the communication of research that fully utilizes the Internet for what it was originally built to do—accelerate research.”
Open Access Publishing, Cornell University, February 2022.
This guidance for researchers seeking to publish an open access article can be helpful to a new information services provider just learning about the issue.
Understanding Open Access, Virginia DOT Research Library, March 2022.
This comprehensive online guide to open access is geared to the transportation researcher and library user.
"USDOT Public Access Policy and Compliance," Mary Moulton, National Transportation Library, AASHTO Research Advisory Committee Summer Meeting, July 2016.
This presentation provides a succinct summary of the public access policy and its application, and how agencies can comply.