Links for Organisations and Sources of Information
The DRIVER project finished in December 2009 after helping the establishment
and development of the European open access repository infrastructure.
Below are links through which you can access some of the key organisations,
services and sources of information available online.
This list is not exhaustive and with the closure of the project will no
longer be updated.
- DRIVER
Project website - http://www.driver-repository.eu
This website is primarily designed for use by project partners but all are welcome to view it. Information and contact details of all DRIVER partners are available from this site. - DRIVER België / DRIVER Belgique - http://www.driver-repository.be
Co-ordination website for repository development and DRIVER activities in Belgium. - SHERPA - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk
SHERPA is based in the UK and is the DRIVER partner in charge of maintaining this website. - PEER - http://www.peerproject.eu/
and PEER project
reports
The PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories and researchers and linked to the DRIVER II project. - SURF - http://www.surf.nl
SURF is based in the Netherlands and is a DRIVER partner. - HAL - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/
- SPARC Europe - http://www.sparceurope.org
- Peter Suber - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/hometoc.htm
A key resource for current news and discussion of Open Access. - Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) - http://www.soros.org/openaccess
- DART Europe - http://www.dartington.ac.uk/dart
- German Open Access Information Platform - http://open-access.net
- Pleiadi - http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/
Portal for Italian Electronic Literature in Open and Institutional Archives. - e-ciencia
Portal -
http://www.madrimasd.org/informacionidi/e-ciencia/buscar-documentos/default.asp
Portal for Spanish Open Access repositories. - Meresco - http://meresco.org/
Provides a set of components for search and retrieve functionality of OAI-repositories. - IREL
Open - http://www.irel-open.ie
Information on the IREL Open project to build institutional repositories in each Irish university. - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative- http://www.dublincore.org
- OAI-ORE - http://www.openarchives.org/ore/
- Knowledge Exchange Initiative - http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/
- European University Association's Working Group on Open Access - http://www.eua.be/index.php?id=396
- LIBER
(Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche) - http://www.libereurope.eu/
LIBER is the principal association of the major research libraries of Europe. - eIFLnet - http://www.eifl.net
- UKCoRR (United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories) - http://www.ukcorr.org
- Digital Scholarship - http://www.digital-scholarship.org
- DSpace Foundation - http://www.dspace.org/
- VIF Project - http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/vif/
- Open Access Directory - http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/
A compendium of simple factual lists about open access maintained by the OA community - Couperin website on Open Access - http://www.couperin.org/archivesouvertes
- Kosson Community - http://www.kosson.ro
An initiative to encourage Open Access in Romania
Last updated: 04-Feb-2010