"Open Access is 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 (OA) is a means of disseminating scholarly and scientific literature over the internet free of charge to researchers and to anyone else who might benefit from accessing the results of publicly funded research "

PLoS, SPARC and OASPA have collaborated to create a guide that identifies the core components of OA and how they are implemented across the spectrum between “Open Access” and “Closed Access”.

"...an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system."

Forum for Open Access journal publishers. Includes links to resources and studies.

"Following submission by authors, the thematic PCIs evaluate preprints in their scientific fields based on rigorous peer review. After evaluation, the PCIs may recommend those preprints, to make them complete, reliable and citable articles, without the need for publication in ‘traditional’ journals. Authors who need to publish their article in a journal can publish it for free in Peer Community Journal or submit it to a PCI-friendly or other journal.
Thematic PCIs are entitled Peer Community in X, e.g. – Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology (PCI Evol Biol) and Peer Community in Ecology (PCI Ecol). See the list of all current PCI:"
https://peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/

"... an initiative to improve transparency and raise awareness of ethical journals and lists ethical journals as those ‘owned or controlled by public institutions, non-profit organisations, or groups of scientists such as learned societies’ (Racimo et al., 2022). It lists the topic, business model, academic partnership, publications fees and impact factor..."

Research article. The authors identify thirteen characteristics of predatory journals based on analysis of their sample.

Hijacked journals mimic legitimate journals by adopting their titles, ISSNs, and other metadata. The Hijacked Journal Checker by Retraction Watch is a continually-updated list of such journals.

2019 May

"The law allows you to transfer copyright while holding back rights for yourself and others. This is the compromise that the SPARC Canadian Author Addendum helps you to achieve."

"...identifies clauses that frequently appear in publishing contracts, explains in plain language what these terms (and typical variations) mean, and presents strategies for negotiating “author-friendly” versions of these clauses. When authors have more information about copyright and publication options for their works, they are better able to make and keep their works available in the ways they want."