The Open Access Directory (OAD) has announced the release of the Bibliography of Open Access, which is the work of OAD contributors. The bibliography is based on Charles Bailey's Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, which was published in 2005 by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). It is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Licence.
With Bailey's permission and the agreement of ARL, most of the Open Access Bibliography has been converted to the MediaWiki format to form the basis of the Bibliography of Open Access. The new bibliography will be authored by registered OAD users, who can add or edit references.
The initial version of the new bibliography has live links; however, they were last updated in August 2004, when the text of the Open Access Bibliography was frozen for print publication preparation. These links can now be updated by registered users. The Open Access Bibliography, which contains textual sections not found in the Bibliography of Open Access, remains freely available in HTML and PDF formats at Digital Scholarship and as a printed book.
The OAD bibliography includes all the citations in Bailey's original work and omits only his Preface, Acknowledgements, and introductory essay, Key Open Access Concepts.
