A new Open Access Directory wiki promises to be a valuable asset for participants in the overlapping Open Access, Open Software and Open Educational Resources movements.

The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship and is maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD will make it easier for users, especially newcomers, to discover them and use them for reference. The easier resources are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA.

The goal is for the OA community itself to enlarge and correct the lists with little intervention from the editors or editorial board. For quality control, the creators limit editing privileges to registered users. They welcome your contributions to lists, ideas for new lists, and comments to help improve OAD.