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An unsurpassed gateway to the international literature on the commons, this site contains a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, a full-text Digital Library, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.

The Creative Commons has developed web-friendly legal licenses to help people dedicate their creative works to the public domain — or retain their copyrights while licensing them as free for certain uses, on certain conditions. The goal is to enable greater access and sharing of creative works.

The free, open-content encyclopedia of the web that contains more than 300,000 entries in English, and versions of 10,000 entries or more in dozens of languages.

A new project of the Creative Commons that works with universities, scientists, learned societies, publishers and others to make scientific data more open and accesssible

Public Knowledge's resources on the burgeoning world of open-access policy and publishing.

Published by BioMed Central, the open-access publisher, Open Access Now is a forum and advocacy site dedicated to "freedom of research information."

This monthly newsletter published by SPARC--the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition--shares news and analysis of the open-access movement and explores how the Internet is transforming scholarly research and publication.

An organization of scientists and physicians, PLoS is a leading force in making scientific and medical literature freely available as a public resource.