The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. OAD is hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.
SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. services include: RoMEO - Publisher's copyright & archiving policies, JULIET - Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines, OpenDOAR worldwide Directory of Open Access Repositories, SHERPA Search - simple full-text search of UK repositories, DRIVER - developing a cross-European repository network infrastructure, and more