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  • This is a list of organizations which make OA advocacy a significant part of their mission. For this purpose, advocacy goes beyond providing OA to other forms of promoting OA.
  • Please annotate organizations with the location of their headquarters, the nations or regions in which they work, the sorts of advocacy in which they engage, and their launch date.
    • If organizations have notable OA advocacy projects, please list them under the organizations rather than as separate entries.
  • If an organization has since folded, please include it with an annotation rather than exclude it.
  • Related lists in OAD: Institutions that support open access.
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Category:Lists about institutions Category:Advocacy for OA Category:Working for OA

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  • Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences
    • Based in Berkeley, California, USA.
    • Focused on improving the standards of openness and integrity in economics, political science, psychology, and related disciplines.
    • Launched in 2012.
  • Beyond Access.
    • International organization based in several countries around the world.
    • Focused on generating strategy, providing guidance, and designing and managing projects, trainings, events, and advisory services to advance individual and community development.
  • Bioline International
    • Based in Brazil.
    • Focused on OA in and from developing countries.
    • Launched in 1993.
  • BioMed Central (BMC)
  • Biblioteca Regional de Medicina (BIREME) (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information)
    • Based in São Paulo, Brazil.
    • Focused on access to medical information in Latin America and the Caribbean.
    • Launched in 1967. Re-launched in 1982 under the name, Latin-American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, but retaining the acronym (BIREME) of its old name.
    • Site available in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
  • Bündnis Freie Bildung (BFB) (Free Education Alliance)

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  • Data Foundation.
    • Based in Washington D.C.
    • Focused on research and advocacy surrounding open government-generated data.
    • Launched in 2016.
  • Don't Pay Twice
    • Focused on Campaign for OA.
    • Don't Pay Twice is supported by American Medical Student Association and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines.
    • Launched in 2013.
  • Digital Repositories Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER)
    • Focused on green OA around the world.
    • Site launched in 2006.
  • Digital Repository Federation in Japan (DRF)
    • Digital Repository Federation (DRF) is a federation consisting of 87 universities and research institutes (as of February 2009), which aims to promote Open Access and Institutional Repository in Japan.
    • DRF is based on one of the research and development projects, managed by Hokkaido University, Chiba University, Kanazawa University, Osaka University and Hiroshima University.
    • Launched in 2010.
  • DuraSpace
    • A "not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data."
    • Launched May 12, 2009, as a merger of the DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons.
  • Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI)
    • Focused on green OA in Germany.
    • First substantive session held in September, 2000.
    • Site available in German and English.

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  • E-learning, Communication, and Open-data (ECO)
    • International partnership based in Europe.
    • Focused on European MOOC development and advocacy.
    • Announced June 19, 2014.
    • Site available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
  • EC FAIR Data Expert Group.
    • Also known as: European Commission Expert Group on Turning FAIR Data into reality.
    • Chaired by Simon Hodson of CODATA.
    • Active in 2018.
  • Ecological Society of America (ESA) Open Science
    • Based in Washington D.C.
    • "An Ecological Society Of America Section Devoted To Open Science".
  • Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)
    • From EIFL.
    • Focused on OA in developing and transition countries.
    • Also see the EIFL-OA programme.
    • Launched in 1999.
  • Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT)
    • Based in the UK.
    • Focused on facilitating "open access to the worlds scholarly literature and to support the electronic distribution of reviewed bioscience journals from countries experiencing difficulties with traditional publication."
    • Launched in 1996.
  • Elektroniczna BIBlioteka (EBIB)
    • EBIB is a non-profit organisation of Polish librarians working for OA.
    • Launched in 1999.
  • ElibUkr Electronic Library of Ukraine (Електронна бібліотека України)
    • The ELibUkr is a nation-wide linked Electronic Library/Knowledge Centers network.
    • Promotes OA and OA repository development in Ukrainian Universities.
    • Supports ELibUkr-OA - a shared national repository for Ukrainian researchers without institutional repositories.
    • Site available in Ukrainian and English
  • EmpowOA (perma.cc)
    • Founded in 2018.
    • Programme is designed to provide scholars and librarians working in the humanities with tools, spaces and cogent arguments about open access.
    • Supported by the Public Library of Humanities.
  • Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS)
    • The EOS Board
    • Based at the University of Liege, Belgium.
    • Focused on helping universities adopt OA policies.
    • A membership organization of research institutions.
    • Launched as EurOpenScholar, October 2007. Relaunched as Enabling Open Scholarship, September 22, 2009.
    • Site available in English and French.
  • EPrints Community
    • Based at the University of Southampton, UK.
    • Open Access Policy-Making Tools and Guidance.
    • Focused on institutions hosting OA repositories using EPrints software.
    • Launched in 2001.
  • Eurodoc Open Science Working Group (perma.cc)
    • Facilitates policy supporting "Open Access and Open Data [as] the two main pillars of Open Science."
    • Part of European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc).
  • European Commons Assembly
    • Focused on enriching open access resources and increasing breadth and visibility of the commons movement in Europe.
  • European Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCs)
  • European Network for Copyright in support of Education and Science (ENCES)
    • Focused on copyright reforms to facilitate OA and OER in Europe.
    • Launched November 13, 2008.
  • European Open Education Librarian Network
  • European Open Science Cloud Pilot
    • Mission is: Facilitating access of researchers across all scientific disciplines to data; Establishing a governance and business model that sets the rules for the use of EOSC; Creating a cross-border and multi-disciplinary open innovation environment for research data, knowledge and services; Establishing global standards for interoperability for scientific data
  • European Regions Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN)
    • Headquartered in Brussels.
    • "Promotes knowledge exchange between its members, focusing on joint actions and project partnerships to strengthen regional research and innovation capacities."
    • Founded in 2001.
  • European Scientific Institute (ESI)
    • ESI is a global academic platform, cooperating with universities and institutions on five continents to organise conferences, workshops and collaborative projects.
    • Hosts one of the largest interdisciplinary open access journals in Europe.
  • European University Association (EUA) Science 2.0/Open Science Expert Group
    • International group based in Brussels, Belgium and Geneva, Switzerland.
    • Focused on Open Science in the context of universities with connection to the EUA.
    • Established in January 2015.
  • European University Association (EUA) Working Group on OA
    • Focused on OA policies for European universities.
    • The OA Working Group was launched on July 10, 2006.
  • Europeana.
    • Based in the Hague
    • The Europeana Foundation is the organization tasked by the European Commission with developing a digital cultural heritage platform for Europe
    • Driven by a core belief that access to a shared heritage – whether in music, books, films, art or social history - makes people’s lives richer
  • Euroscience Science Publishing Working Group
    • Focused on spreading OA policies throughout Europe.
    • The Science Publishing Working Group was launched on January 30, 2005.
  • Expert Advisory Group on Data Access (EAGDA)
    • Based in the U.K.
    • Established by Wellcome Trust
    • Provides "strategic advice on the emerging scientific, legal and ethical issues associated with data access for human genetics research and cohort studies."

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  • Fair Open Access
    • Based in the Netherlands.
    • Aims to create sustainable open access scholarly publishing through pushing a set of guidelines to achieving fair open access.
  • FAIRsharing
    • Web guide to "data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies."
    • Based at University of Oxford e-Research Centre, UK.
    • Launched in 2008 as MIBBI (Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations).
  • Forum for Open Access in South Asia (perma.cc)
    • An online forum formed by the advocates of Open Access, Open Data and Open Education in South Asian countries to take forward the Open Access movement in South Asia.
    • Formed on 11th July 2017
  • FinnOA (Suomen Open Access Työryhmhä)
    • The national site for OA in Finland.
    • Finnish Open Access Working Group.
    • In Finnish. Home page provides brief description in English.
  • Free Journal Network (perma.cc)
    • The purpose of this network is to promote scholarly journals run according to the Fair Open Access model.
  • Free/Libre Open Knowledge Society (FLOK Society)
    • Based in Quito, Ecuador.
    • A "Free Open Knowledge Society, designing a world for the commons."
    • In Spanish.
  • Free our knowledge (perma.cc)
    • Aims to increase the adoption of open research practices through collective action in academia.
  • Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship 2011 (Force11)
    • Based in La Jolla, California.
    • Focused on transforming scholarly communication, including support for OA.
    • Includes the Scholarly Commons Working Group.
    • Launched in March 2011.
  • Forum Mondial des Médias Libres (World Forum of Free Media)
    • Based in Montreal, Québec.
    • Focused on "the fight for free knowledge and for alternatives to the models of communication monopolized or controlled by economic power, free media are those that serve communities, social struggles, culture and diversity."
    • Organizer of connected events, beginning in 2009.
  • Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research (FOSTER)
    • Based in Minho, Portugal, but European-wide in scope.
    • Focused on assisting young researchers in integrating open access principles into their workflow, facilitating the adoption and implementation of open access policies for European funders, and increasing institutional support and training for open access policies.
    • Launched in 2014.
  • Foundation for Open Access Statistics (FOAS)
    • Based in California.
    • Focuses on promoting "free software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics" and supporting The Journal of Statistical Software (JSS)
    • Launched in 2013 .
  • Foundation for P2P Alternatives
    • A non-profit network "of researchers, activists, and citizens monitoring and promoting actions geared towards a transition to a Commons-based society."
    • Launched November 29, 2005.
  • Free Ebook Foundation
    • Based in the United States.
    • Focused on the access and distribution of free Ebooks, in coordination with projects Unglue.it and GITenberg.
    • Launched June 2015.
  • Free Culture Foundation
    • Chapters based in universities in the United States.
    • Focuses on undoing "the exploitation enabled by private ownership of technology, media, and communication networks".
    • Previously known as Students of Free Culture.
    • Launched in 2003.
  • Free Knowledge Advocacy Group
    • Based across the EU.
    • Focused on promoting free access to, and re-use of, human knowledge.
    • Launched in 2013.
  • Free Knowledge Institute
    • Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    • Formerly, Science Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF), re-launched as FKI January 14, 2008.
  • Free/Libre Open Source and Open Knowledge Association of Kansas (FLOK
    • Based in Lawrence, Kansas.
    • Focused on promoting the open sharing of software and knowledge in Kansas.
    • Organizes regional open access/knowledge-based events for residents of Kansas.
  • Free the Science
    • An initiative of the Electrochemical Society.
    • Focused on removing the paywalls that are barriers to open research in the science industry.
    • Connects OA-interested research scientists to OA publishing resources.
    • Offers subsidized publishing for qualified researchers.

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  • Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)
    • Based at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    • Focused on developing effective OA policies at universities and funding agencies (worldwide), and providing accurate and timely information about OA itself.
    • Launched in the fall of 2011.
  • Health Information for All (HIFA).
    • International organization based in Africa, Europe, and the rest of the world.
    • A global health network of more than 16,000 members (health workers, librarians, publishers, researchers, policymakers...) committed to the progressive realisation of a world where every person has access to the healthcare information they need to protect their own health and the health of others.
    • Launched in Mombasa, Kenya in October 2006, at the 10th Congress of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa.
  • Health Research Alliance
    • Based in North Carolina, U.S.
    • Focused on providing open research in order to better general health.
    • Launched 1998.
  • Higher education Online: MOOCs the European way (HOME)
  • HUNgarian Open Repositories (HUNOR)
    • The HUNOR consortium was set up to advance national open access practices in Hungary.
    • Run by the University Library of Debrecen.
    • In Hungarian.

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  • Kennisland
    • Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    • Think tank oriented towards bettering society by enabling open access to information.
    • Launched in 1998.
  • Kenya Library and Information Services Consortium (KLISC)
    • Focused on "leadership and synergy building in knowledge and information resources sharing through capacity building, advocacy, networking and collaborations." This includes training librarians in open access.
    • Established in 2003.
  • Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
    • Based in Washington, D.C. and Geneva.
    • Focused on "better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources. KEI is focused on social justice, particularly for the most vulnerable populations, including low-income persons and marginalized groups."
    • Launched in 2006, "assimilating the staff and work program of the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech), while redefining the mission of the organization."
  • Knowledge Exchange (KE)
    • Based in Copenhagen.
    • Focused on OA in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.
    • Also see the KE's Open Access Working Group.
  • Knowledge G.A.P. – Geopolitics of Academic Production
    • "Hosted at the Centre for Critical Development Studies (CCDS) at the University of Toronto, Scarborough;...affiliated with the Open Science and Development Network (OCSDnet)".
    • Studies "representation and marginalization within processes of global knowledge production".
  • The Knowledge Net
    • International network based throughout Europe.
    • Created in connection to PASTEUR4OA; operating under OpenAIRE as of September 2016.
    • Focused on the "development, adoption and implementation of Open Access policies that are aligned with the OA policy for Horizon 2020 by research funders and research institutions.".
  • Kosson, Romania

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  • OA Ísland
  • Open Access - Tohatoha (perma.cc)
    • Founded in 2006.
    • Tohatoha Aotearoa Commons is the latest form of New Zealand’s evolving commitment to a fair and equitable digital world.
    • Located in New Zealand.
  • OAK Law (Open Access to Knowledge) Law Project
    • Based at Queensland University of Technology.
    • Focused on OA in Australia, especially copyright and licensing issues.
    • Created February 21, 2006, and officially launched November 29-30, 2006.
  • Open Academic Society (OAS)
    • Based in U.S.
    • "Open Academic Society is formed by a group of institutions to create a shared, open and expanding knowledge graph of research and education-focused entities and relationships."
    • Organizes events, workshops, challenges, and other activities centered around their freely accessible cloud API knowledge graph.
  • OER Africa
    • OER stands for Open Educational Resources
    • Based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
    • Supports higher education institutions across Africa in the development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) to enhance teaching and learning.
  • OER Hub
    • OER stands for Open Educational Resources
    • Research to gather evidence to support hypotheses about the benefits of OER
    • Based in the UK in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University
    • Started with a grant from the Hewlett Foundation in 2006 to establish the OpenLearn repository
  • OER World Map
    • "Collects and visualizes data on the growing number of actors and activities in the field of open education worldwide."
    • Based in Germany.
    • Launched in 2014.
  • OEP Scotland
    • OEP stands for Opening Educational Practices
    • Based in Scotland.
    • Aims to raise awareness and develop best practices for open access policies regarding educational resources in Scotland.
  • OOO Canada.
    • Based in Canada.
    • Canadian advocacy network focused on open access, open data, and and open education.
    • Launch announced October 2015.
  • Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
    • Based in Newburyport, MA, U.S.
    • Focused on advancing quality online learning by providing professional development, instruction, best practice publications and guidance to educators, online learning professionals and organizations around the world.
    • Launched in 1999.
  • Open Academic Society.
    • Initial contributions from the Microsoft Academic by Microsoft Research and the AMiner graph from Tsinghua University
    • A shared, open and expanding knowledge graph of research and education-focused entities and relationships
    • The data set is available under a freely accessible cloud API, and the society will organize workshops, challenges, and data sharing activities for the benefit of the larger computer science community.
  • Open Access Academy
    • Based in Rome, Italy and Novi Sad, Serbia.
    • Established between 2014 and 2015.
    • Focused on "Providing Resources, Support and Advice for students and early career researchers in their journey from writing to publishing their research papers".
  • OpenAccess.be
    • The national site for OA in Belgium.
  • OpenAccess.dk
    • The national site for OA in Denmark.
  • OpenAccess.gr
    • The national site for OA in Greece.
  • OpenAccess.hk
    • The national site for OA in Hong Kong.
  • Open Access India
    • Founded in 2012.
    • Focused on open access, open data and open education advocacy and developing community-based e-infrastructure.
  • Open Access Indonesia (perma.cc)
    • Open Access Indonesia is a community that advocates the Open Access movement in Indonesia and examines the various advancements of the Open Access movement in the world and in Indonesia in particular.
  • Open Access Nepal
    • A student network to promote open access to scholarly research across Nepal.
    • Launched in 2013.
    • Supported by Right to Research Coalition
  • Open Access Nigeria
    • A student network to promote open access to scholarly research across Nigeria.
    • Launched in 2013
    • Supported by the Right to Research Coalition
    • Find their blog here
  • Open Access South Africa
    • A student network to promote open access to scholarly research across South African universities.
    • Launched in 2014
    • Supported by the Right to Research Coalition
  • OpenAccess.is
    • The national site for OA in Iceland.
  • Open Access Italy
    • The national site for OA in Italy.
  • Open Access Korea
    • The national site for OA in Korea.
  • Open Access Monographs (perma.cc)
    • Based in the UK.
    • The group's remit is to monitor and evaluate progress towards OA book publishing, promote and accelerate cultural change towards OA publishing within academia and among traditional publishers, advise on technical barriers to OA publishing and make recommendations for further work and investment, promote innovation and diversity in business models for OA book publishing, including potentially via encouraging support for existing pilots and advise on how best to overcome perceived and actual policy and legal barriers to OA, including to funders, third-party rights holders, academic communities and publishers.
    • Founded in 2016.
  • OpenAccess.nl
    • The national site for OA in the Netherlands.
  • OpenAccess.no
    • The national site for OA in Norway.
  • Open Access Network Austria (OANA)
    • A joint activity by UNIKO and FWF.
    • Focused on developing policy recommendations for open access implementation in Austria, activities of the research institutions, funding organisations and research policies.
    • Founded in 2012.
  • Open Access Peru
    • The national site for OA in Peru.
  • OpenAccessPHL
    • Based in Philadelphia.
    • Focused on open government, open data, and civic action.
    • Launched in 2011.
  • Open Access Portal in Armenia
  • Open Access Publisher Processes (OAPP) Group
  • Open Access Slovenia
    • The national site for OA in Slovenia.
  • OpenAccess.se
    • The national site for OA in Sweden.
  • OpenSpaces (perma.cc)
    • Founded in 2013.
    • Aims to open the landscapes of science and share stories to help create an efficient, open culture for science. Vision is to create a scientific culture that is more efficient and collaborative, and can uncover environmental solutions faster.
  • Open Access Agreements and Licenses Task Force
    • Initiated and supported by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
    • Monitors, evaluates and promotes the "implementation of effective open access agreements and licenses in order to improve access to research papers globally."
  • Open Access Archaeology - Open Access Archaeology
    • Focused on OA in the field of Archeology.
  • Open Access Coalition
  • Open Access Communication for Science (OACS)
    • Based at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration (HANKEN).
    • Focused on research about the growth and consequences of OA.
  • Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG)
    • The closest thing to a national site for OA in the UK, at least at the time of launch.
    • At launch time, the group had representatives from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Salford, Universities UK, Research Libraries UK, the Society of College, National and University Libraries, JISC, the Research Councils UK, the Wellcome Trust, the Association of Research Managers and Administrators UK, and the Public Library of Science.
    • Launched October 28, 2010.
  • Open Access Network Austria Working Groups
    • Formed as a part of OANA
    • Focuses on a wide variety of issues including Open Access policy, financing of Open Access, legal and political frameworks, and publishing models.
  • Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)
  • Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
    • Focused on gold OA worldwide.
    • Launched October 14, 2008.
  • Open Access Team for Scotland (OATS)
    • The national site for OA in Scotland.
    • Site last updated in February 2005. Is it defunct?
  • Open Access Toolset Alliance (OATA)
    • Focused on free and open-source tools to support OA.
    • Launched August 9, 2013.
  • Open Access all'Università di Torino (oa.unito.it)
    • Part of University of Turin, Italy.
    • University OA policy began in 2013.
    • In Italian.
  • Open Access Working Group (OAWG)
    • Based in Washington, D.C.
    • A SPARC initiative
    • Focused on OA for publicly-funded research in the US.
  • Open Access Working Group
  • Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open AIR)
    • Based in institutions throughout Africa, Canada, India and Europe.
    • Focused on investigating "how intellectual property (IP) regimes can be harnessed in Africa to facilitate innovation through collaboration – and to make processes more participatory, knowledge more accessible, and benefits more widely shared".
    • Launched in 2011.
  • Openforum Academy
    • Openforum Academy is a think tank concerned with OA in computing.
    • Openforum Academy was established by Openforum Europe.
  • Open Access Working Group Ukraine
  • Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
    • International association.
    • Focused on "open and distance learning".
    • ODLAA Constitution first adopted in July 1993.
  • Open Book Alliance (OBA)
    • Based in San Francisco. An offshoot of the Open Content Alliance (below).
    • Focused on OA books worldwide.
    • Launched August 26, 2009.
  • Open Content Alliance (OCA)
    • Based in San Francisco. Also see the Open Book Alliance (above) and Open Knowledge Commons (below).
    • Focused on digitizing and providing OA to books, worldwide.
    • Launched October 3, 2005.
  • Open Cultuur Data (Open Culture Data).
    • Based in the Netherlands.
    • Focused on promoting open data in the context of cultural heritage.
    • Launched in September 2011.
  • Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNET)
    • Focused on gathering observations on whether, and under which conditions, open approaches to research and collaboration could lead to various development outcomes in the Global South.
  • Open Data for Development (OD4D) (perma.cc)
    • International network.
    • "Open Data for Development (OD4D) is a global network of leaders in the Open Data community, working together to develop open data solutions around the world." - OD4D, About
    • Launched January 2015.
  • Open Data Foundation (ODaF)
    • Focused on open data, and open standards for metadata, and open-source software for statistical data.
    • Apparently launched in 2006.
  • Open Data Institute
    • Based in London
    • Focused on facilitating the use of open data to create economic, environmental, social, and cultural value.
  • Open Data Watch
    • Based in Washington, D.C.
    • Focused on promoting open data in the context of developing countries.
    • Supports Open Data Inventory (ODIN).
  • Open Development Working Group
    • Part of the Open Knowledge Network
    • A network functioning as a central point of reference and support for people people interested in open knowledge development.
  • Open Education Coalition (OEC), Poland
  • Open Education Consortium
    • OEC is a global community of higher education institutions and associated organisations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education.
  • Open Education Europa
    • “The main goal of the Open Education Europa portal is to offer access to all existing European Open Educational Resources in different languages in order to be able to present them to learners, teachers and researchers.” - Open Education Europa, About This Portal
    • Initiated in September, 2013 by the European Commission.
  • Open Education Group
  • Open Education Policy Network.
    • "Network of organizations and experts that...support the development and implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) policies in Europe," especially Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia.
    • 1st "OER Policy Forum" held in 2016.
  • Open Education Practice Scotland
    • Mission is to share and develop best practices in open education
    • Based in Scotland
  • Open Education Research Hub (OER Hub)
  • Open Education Special Interest Group
    • Seeks to remove barriers to education by freely sharing educational resources and adopting open educational practices
    • Established March 2012
    • Based in the UK
  • Open Education Working Group
    • Part of Open Knowledge International brings people together to promote Open Educational Practices and Open Educational Resources, as well as Open Policies, Open Science and Open Data in education.
    • established to bring together people and groups interested in open education. Its goal is to initiate global cross-sector and cross-domain activity that encompasses the various facets of open education.
  • OpenGLAM
  • Open Humans
    • A nonprofit foundation and has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Knight Foundation.
    • Launched in 2015.
    • Dating sharing that gives people control over who has access. It can be private, shared by some, or shared by all.
  • Open Humanities Alliance (OHA)
  • Open Institute
    • Based in Nairobi, Kenya.
    • Launched in 2012.
    • Focused on open government in Africa.
  • OpenJournal
    • International working group, convening online.
    • "Inaugural Meeting" took place on November 11, 2015.
    • Focused on "uniting institutions in universalizing access to open academic publications.".
  • Open Journal Project
  • Open Knowledge Commons (OKC)
    • Focused on digitization for OA. A spin-off of the Open Content Alliance (above).
    • Launched September 2008.
  • Open Knowledge El Salvador
  • Open Knowledge Finland (OKFFI)
  • Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)
  • Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland
  • Open Knowledge Foundation Japan (OKFJ)
  • Open Knowledge Macedonia
    • An initiative of the Open Knowledge Network
    • Launched in 2015
    • Focused on strengthening and expanding the open community in Macedonia.
  • Open Knowledge Pakistan
    • An initiative of the Open Knowledge Network
    • Focused on promoting open knowledge through educational events, public policy programmes, and networking activities.
  • Open Knowledge Portugal
    • An initiative of the Open Knowledge Network
    • Launched in 2015
    • Focused on promoting open knowledge through educational events, public policy programmes, and networking activities.
  • Open Knowledge Sweden
    • An initiative of the Open Knowledge Network
    • Launched in 2016
    • Focused on promoting open knowledge through educational events, public policy programmes, and networking activities.
  • Open Knowledge Ukraine
    • An initiative of the Open Knowledge Network
    • Launched 2015
    • Focused on promoting open knowledge through educational events, public policy programmes, and networking activities.
  • Open Library Foundation
    • Not-for-profit organization focused on permanent availability, accessibility and sustainability of OA and open source projects by/for libraries.
    • Launched in 2016.
    • Open source software for personal, commercial, or institutional use available through the Foundation, via Apache v2 license.
  • OpenMed
    • "Opening up Education in South-Mediterranean countries."
    • Founded in October 2015.
    • Headquartered at UNIMED (Mediterranean Universities Union), Rome, Italy.
  • Open MENA
  • Open Nepal (Opennepal.net)
    • "Knowledge hub and a learning space for organisations and people that produce, share and use data for development."
    • Established 6 July 2013.
  • Open Pharma
    • Leading HealthScience communications agency working with pharma to drive fast and transparent medical publishing
    • Started as the Oxford Project
    • Coordinating a group of forward-thinking pharma clients, publishers, patients, academics, regulators, editors, non-pharmaceutical funders and societies to identify the changes that are needed and how they might be achieved.
  • Open Policy Institute
  • Open Policy Network (OPN)
    • A project of Creative Commons.
    • Supports the "creation, adoption and implementation of open policies around the world." Works to help maintain "existing policy frameworks" in order to ensure "effective and long-lasting" open policies.
    • Developed in October 2012.
  • Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN)
    • Focused on supporting grant compliance for U.S. Department of Labor "Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College & Career Training (TAACCCT)" funding recipients, with attention to OER, Creative Commons licensing, and accessibility.
    • Participants include, "Creative Commons (CC), the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC)".
  • Open Research Data Task Force
    • Coordinating the creation of a "‘roadmap’ for national open research data infrastructure" in the UK
    • Formed after July 2016
  • Open Research Exchange
    • ORE is a hub built by PatientsLikeMe to facilitate collaboration between researchers, clinicians, academics and patients.
    • The goal of ORE is to position patients at the center of the clinical process to develop better collective understanding of diseases and new health outcome measures.
  • Open Research Funders Group (IRFG).
    • A partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs. This will benefit society by accelerating the pace of discovery, reducing information-sharing gaps, encouraging innovation, and promoting reproducibility.
    • Launched in 2015.
  • Open Rights Group.
    • Based in the UK.
    • Focused on protecting the rights to privacy and free speech online.
    • Launched in 2006.
    • Member organization of European Digital Rights (EDRi).
  • Open Research Steering Committee (perma.cc)
    • Formed January 2019.
    • Based at Cambridge University in the UK.
    • Replaces the Open Access Working Group.
  • Open Scholarship
    • Based in Edinburgh.
    • Focused on promoting knowledge and and working practices within the University of Edinburgh.
    • Launched in 2012.
  • Open Scholar C.I.C. (perma.cc)
    • A not-for-profit Community Interest Company.
    • Based in Birmingham, U.K.
    • Supports the development and promotion of LIBRE (LIBerating REsearch): A "multidisciplinary research platform implementing an innovative evaluation model that we call author-guided open peer review.
    • Founded in 2012.
  • Open Scholar Foundation
    • The organization's aim is to "improve the efficiency of scholarly communication by providing incentives for researchers to openly share their digital research artifacts, including manuscripts, data, protocols, source code, and lab notes."
    • Formed in 2013.
  • Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)
  • Open Scholarship Society
    • Based in Liverpool, U.K.
    • Is "a forum for students and early careers researchers to gather, discuss and learn about developments and issues relating to scholarly communications."
  • Open Science ASAP
    • Based in Austria.
    • "Open Science ASAP" stands for "Open Science As A Practice."
    • Provides a framework for sharing projects such as: research, blogs, software, course ideas, development tools.
  • Open Science Association (perma.cc)
    • Aim is to facilitate the dissemination and increase of access to scientific knowledge.
    • In Russian.
    • Located in Moscow.
  • Open Science Bay Area
    • Based in Mountain View, California.
    • Launched September 23, 2010.
  • Open Science Center
    • Fosters the sustainable development of local communities through science and technology.
    • An engaging learning space based on open standards: open architecture, open education, open technology & open science.
    • Designing Open Science Centre for low-income and/or remote communities in the Netherlands and discussing possibilities with partners in Brazil, Mozambique and other countries.
  • Open Science Community Groningen (perma.cc)
    • The OSCG aims to make research more accessible and reproducible by facilitating Open Science Practices, connecting Open Science enthusiasts and uniting current Open Science initiatives and stimulating responsible research practices and Open Science policies.
    • Focus is the University of Groningen (UG) and the University Medical Center (UMCG).
  • Open Science Community Utrecht (OSCU) (perma.cc)
    • "Founded as a platform to facilitate Open Science practices within Utrecht University," Netherlands.
    • Runs informal Open Science Café meetings.
  • Open Science Federation (OSF)
    • Focused on the advance of open access, open data, and open science.
    • Launched in 2010.
  • Open Science Framework
    • Part of Center for Open Science
    • Provides digital tools to support researchers throughout their workflow in order to encourage open science practices
  • Open Science Grassroots Community Networks (perma.cc)
    • Google Sheet.
    • Founded probably in 2019.
  • Open Science in ICM
    • A project of the ICM – Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, the University of Warsaw, Poland.
  • Open Science Policy Platform (perma.cc)
    • Based in the EU.
    • Steering group formed 2016.
  • Open Science Russia (Ассоциация «Открытая наука»)
    • Focused on creating a national infrastructure of scientific open knowledge as part of the National Technology Initiative (Национальной технологической инициативы).
    • In Russian.
  • Open Science Working Group
    • Part of the Open Knowledge Network
    • A global network of researchers, librarians, students, policy-makers, data-curators, coders, entrepreneurs, activists and citizens who believe in open science, develop open projects, and foster a growing open community.
  • Open Society Foundations (OSF)
  • Open Source Alliance for Open Scholarship (OSAOS)
    • "Open source, community-led projects working together for open scholarship."
  • Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA)
    • Runs annual Open Hardware Summit and Open Source Hardware certification.
    • Mission: "to foster technological knowledge and encourage research that is accessible, collaborative and respects user freedom."
    • Based in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
  • Open Steps
    • An online diary and platform based upon the travels of Marguerite Thierry and Alejandro Corbi.
    • Itinerary includes: South-East Europe, Turkey, India, South-East Asia, Japan and South-America.
    • Thierry and Corbi seek to document examples of knowledge sharing in various environments; among collectives, universities, creative spaces, individuals and organizations.
    • The travel project begins June 2013 and can be followed via Thierry and Corbi's Open Steps blog.
  • Opening Scholarship Project
  • OpenSciDev
    • Based in Cambridge, UK.
    • Focused on building a research community with a diverse group of stakeholders to help support and enable greater engagement with open science.
  • Open Science Policy Platform
    • Based in EU.
    • Focused on co-designing and co-developing an Open Science Policy Agenda for Europe.
    • Launched September 2016.
  • OSGeo Labs
    • Based internationally through the collaboration of labs worldwide.
    • Provides free and open source GIS (geographic information system) to governments, municipal authorities, and the public in general.
    • Launched September 2011.
  • Open Science and Innovation Research Group
    • Based in Barcelona, Spain.
    • Research group specializing in the study of open science and innovation.
  • Open Science Network Austria (perma.cc)
    • Based in Austria.
    • OANA is a think tank on the topic of Open Science, with an open structure and no legal form. Goals are: the exchange of ideas, the coordination and connection of initiatives and the development of recommendations on Open Science.
    • Founded in 2012.
  • Oxford Open Science WIki
    • A Wiki from the OKF that is focused on Oxford and Open Science.
    • Focused on a Working Group formed Science and Oxford Open Science.
  • Open Scotland
  • Open Textbook Network (OTN)
    • Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the University of Minnesota, Center of Education and Human Development.
    • "The Open Textbook Network (OTN) promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks."
    • Manages the Open Textbook Library, founded in 2012.
    • Launched in 2015.
  • OpenTox Association
    • Based in Switzerland.
    • Focused on promoting "the community-based exchange and use of open knowledge, software, methods, tools, data, reference resources, and standards in the scientific activities of predictive toxicology, safety assessment and risk management."
    • Launched March 27, 2015.
  • Open Undergrad Research Foundation (OpenURF)
    • Plan to base in the United States indicated in launch announcement.
    • Focused on promoting Open Science in undergraduate education.
    • Announced in July, 2015.
  • OpenUP
    • Based in a number of partner institutions across the E.U.
    • Aims to find a framework for distributing open access information through the creation of an open information hub
    • Launched in 2017.
  • Open Up Resources
    • Based in the U.S.
    • Focused on increasing equity in education by making excellent curricula openly available to school districts.
    • Launched in 2016.
  • OPERAS: Open access in the European research area through scholarly communication
    • Based in a number of partner institutions across the EU.
    • Is a distributed Research Infrastructure (RI) project for open scholarly communication that aims to ensure effective dissemination of European research.
    • Launched in 2017.
  • Open Access Publishing Services (OPuS)
    • Based in the Netherlands.
    • Focused on supporting open access research and data publication [OPuS,].
  • Öppen tillgång till vetenskapliga publikationer
    • Open access to scientific publications
    • National Library of Sweden
  • ORION Project (perma.cc)
    • Based in a number of partner institutions across the E.U.
    • Is a collaborative European project exploring open access policies in life sciences and medical research.
    • Launched 2017.

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  • Radical Open Access Collective
    • "Community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals...[promoting] open publishing in the humanities and social sciences."
    • Based in UK.
    • Began in 2015.
    • Formed by Open Humanities Press and others.
  • RCUK Open Access Practitioners Group
    • RCUK stands for Research Councils U.K.
    • Based in U.K.
    • Aims to share best practices, discuss issues, and provide insight into the implementation of open access policy.
    • Launched October 2016
  • RECOLECTA, Spain
    • A joint program of REBIUN/FECYT to promote, support and coordinate the development of the Spanish digital repositories infrastructure for open access, dissemination and preservation of Spanish publicly funded research results.
  • Reclaim the Records
    • Based in U.S.
    • Aims to get archivally important data sets such as genealogical records released back into the public domain.
    • Launched in 2015.
  • Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal (REDALYC)
    • Based in Mexico City at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.
    • Focused on OA in and about Ibero-America, including the Caribbean.
    • Launched in 2003.
  • Register of Commission Expert Groups and Other Similar Entities (perma.cc)
    • Aim is to assess emerging and alternative open access business models with the aim of establishing how an economically viable transition towards open access can be achieved.
    • Founded 25 August 2016.
  • Return on Academic Research (ROARS)
    • Based in Italy
    • Focused on an evidence-based approach to policy discussions in higher education and research.
    • Launched September 2011.
  • Repositories Support Project (RSP)
    • Focused on green OA in the UK. Funded by JISC.
  • Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
    • Focused on green OA in Portugal.
  • Research4Life
    • International partnership, supporting programs HINARI, AGORA, OARE, and ARDI.
    • Focused on equity in information access "by providing affordable access to critical scientific research" in developing countries.
    • Launched in 2001.
  • Research Communications Strategy project (RCS)
    • A JISC funded strategic analysis and advocacy initiative in the UK.
  • Research Data Alliance (RDA)
    • Organized through an international steering group funded by agencies in the US, EU and Australia.
    • Focused on aiming "to accelerate and facilitate research data sharing and exchange".
    • Launched in August 2012
  • Research Group Acceso abierto a la ciencia
    • The Research Group's goal is to become a source of information about Open Access and a forum for discussion and sharing experiences.
    • The portal offers tools for authors, providing information about publishers copyright terms and self-archiving policies (Dulcinea), an updated directory of Spanish Institutional Open Access Repositories (BuscaRepositorios) and an International Directory of institutional OA policies (Melibea).
  • Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project
    • Hosted at University of Cape Town, South Africa.
    • "Aims to provide empirical evidence of OER adoption and impact to improve educational policy, practice, and research in developing countries."
    • Launched 2014.
  • Right to Research Coalition
    • Based in Washington DC, USA.
    • Focused on promoting open access to scholarly and medical research.
    • Encourages student and early-career researcher participation.
    • A division of SPARC
    • Host of OpenCon
  • r0g_agency.
    • Based in Berlin, Germany.
    • Focused on promoting open culture.
    • Launched in 2012.
  • rOpenSci
    • Nonprofit that aims to "make scientific data retrieval reproducible."
    • Founded in 2011.

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  • ScholarLed (perma.cc)
    • Formed in 2018.
    • It is a consortium of five scholar-led, not-for-profit, open access book publishers.
    • Mission is to develop systems and practices that allow presses to provide each other with forms of mutual support, ranging from pooled expertise to shared on- and offline infrastructures.
  • Scholarly Commons Working Group: see entry for Force 11.
  • Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCA)
    • Based in Cape Town, South Africa.
    • Focusing on Africa in general, and four institutions in particular: the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius, and Namibia.
    • Launched in September 2010.
  • Scholarly Communications Lab - ScholComm Lab (perma.cc)
    • An interdisciplinary team of researchers interested in all aspects of scholarly communication.
    • Based at Vancouver and Ottawa, Canada.
  • Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
  • Scholarly Transformation Advice and Review (STAR) Team: UC Libraries (perma.cc)
    • Based at University of California.
    • The aim is to evaluate and make initial recommendations on UC consortial investment opportunities in potentially transformative scholarly communication initiatives.
    • Founded in 2014.
  • Sci-GaIA
  • Science and Development Network (SciDev.net)
    • Based in London.
    • Focused on OA scientific and technological information for developing countries.
    • Launched in 2001.
  • Science Europe
    • Based in Brussels, Belgium.
    • Works to enable better cooperation between European research organizations and non-European organizations, as well as within European research groups.
    • Launched in October 2011.
  • Science Ouverte Haïti Afrique (Project SOHA)
    • International open science initiative and research project focused in Haiti and French-speaking African countries.
    • Full project title: "La science ouverte comme outil collectif de développement du pouvoir d’agir et de la justice cognitive en Haïti et en Afrique francophone : vers une feuille de route / Open science as a collective tool of empowerment and cognitive justice in Haiti and French-speaking Africa : building the roadmap."
    • Produced open science network, “Réseau interdisciplinaire d'information de d'échanges sur la science ouverte en Haïti et en Afrique francophone (RISOHA)”.
    • Supports online network, le Collectif SOHA.
    • Launched circa 2015.
  • Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)
    • Based in São Paulo, Brazil.
    • Focused on gold OA in developing countries.
    • Also see SciELO South Africa, launched in 2009.
  • Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC)
    • Based in Los Angeles, U.S.
    • Aims to create a collaborative environment where all libraries have the necessary resources and means to deliver information to their researchers, students and faculty.
    • Lauched in 1986.
  • Serwis Otwarta Nauka (CEON) (Centre for Open Science)
    • Based at University of Warsaw Poland
    • Formed as a separate unit within ICM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling) to provide tools and advocate for the "OA approach in research."
    • Formed in 2010.
    • Site available in Polish and partially in English.
  • SHERPA Partnership
    • Based at the University of Nottingham. "SHERPA" stands for "Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access," though the organization is better known by its acronym.
    • A body which has been active in open access research communications since 2002. The partnership now includes over 30 research-led institutions in the UK.
    • Launched in 2002.
  • Southern African Regional Universities' Association (SARUA)
    • Based in Johannesburg.
    • Focused on the interests of universities in Southern Africa, including their interests in OA.
    • In a 2008 report, SARUA recommended that member organizations work for OA.
    • Launched February 20, 2005.
  • Students for Free Culture
    • Focused on advancing free culture, including OA from funding agencies and universities, especially in the US.
  • SURF
    • Based in Amsterdam.
    • SURF is a Dutch higher education and research partnership for information and communication technology. Open Access is one of the programmes.
    • Also see its page on openness.
  • Sydney Open Research Network (perma.cc)
    • It aims to facilitate the growth of open practices by bringing together independently motivated and like-minded people, and providing a platform for the sharing of resources.

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  • The Access Initiative (TAI)
    • Focused on "access to information, participation, and justice in environmental decision-making."
    • Launched in 1999.
  • The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) (perma.cc)
    • Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT)
    • Aim is to develop tools and data that will allow universities to understand how effectively they are operating as open knowledge institutions; and to support strategic change in higher education and research.
  • Towards a Scholarly Commons (scholarlycommons.net)
    • Aims to "reclaim the system of scholarly communication by encouraging investment in open technologies and open content."
    • Began in 2017.
  • Transitioning Society Publications to OA - TSPOA (perma.cc)
    • Founded on October 2018.
    • Focus of group is to connect society journal editors and publishers (and any libraries or consortia that support them) with support and useful resources related to transitioning society publications to open access (OA).

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  • Welsh Repository Network (WRN)
    • The Welsh Repository Network is a collaborative venture between the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Wales to establish, develop and populate a network of interoperable institutional repositories.
    • The vision that underpins the network is to facilitate and encourage the sharing of resources across the principality and to maximise the impact of Welsh research across the globe.
  • Whose Knowledge?
    • "Global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet."
    • Launched circa 2016??
  • Why Open Research?
    • Based in Mexico [Twitter,].
    • Information resource focused on exploring open publishing options for researchers.
    • Launched in November, 2015.
  • WorldWideScience Alliance

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