Open Access Directory (OAD)

A new wiki - Open Access Directory (OAD) - has been rolled out. It would serve as a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship.

Open Science Directory

Open Science Directory has been developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library. About 13000 scientific journals are listed in this directory. It contains open access journals and journals in the special programs like Hinari, Agora,
OARE etc. Some other
programs like INASP-PERI and eJDS will also be added in the near future.

Educational Videos Directory?

Public University Online.com for public online lectures. It intends to spread knowledge through knowledge sharing.

To me, it appears more of a directory listing and search engine to find educational videos. It links to original sites hosting the videos lectures along with comments.

Indian Bloggers - Active Lot

Indians are not just dominating global software industry. They are active on the blogosphere as well. They don't just blog, they network themselves as well. Just have a look at IndiBlogger. It is serves as a directory of Indian Bloggers and a platform for networking among them. They also meet in real world. At state level as well they do have groups - for example take the case of Delhi Bloggers Group. They are ready to form a registered society called - The Delhi Blog & New Media Society. Here also they network and meet together (Flickr: Delhi Blog & New Media Society). A new search engine cum directory - India Blogs- has been lunched. It is based on Google Custom Search and claims to cover India's top and most read blogs. Yet another tool is available to be in touch with Indian Blogs - BlogsJam It is an aggregating service brings best blogs at one place. There are other bloggers too but perhaps not listed in such general directories. Some Librarians and Information Science professionals blog too. They are listed at Librarians Library along with other content.

Copyright policies of scholarly journals for authors

Author should check-up copyright policies of scholarly journals before sending their articles for publication. It has been empirically shown that articles freely available online are more likely to get cited. Thus preference should be given to Open Access journals or those journals that allow self-achieving in public or institutional repositories. Directory of Open Access Journals lists 3146 Open Access journals. RoMEO project maintains a database of publishers' policies relating to archiving. Another similar database (OAKList)has been announced containing information about publishing agreements and publishers' open access policies.