Open Access Bibliography vs. Transforming Scholarly Communication through Open Access: What’s the Difference?
There are two book-length bibliographies available from Digital Scholarship: Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals and Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography. What's the difference?
| Feature | Open Access Bibliography | Transforming Scholarly Communication |
| Publication Date | 2005 (not updated) | 2010 (not updated) |
| Coverage | Fairly comprehensive: diverse published and unpublished works in English |
Selective: published works in English, primarily books and journal articles |
| Number of References |
Over 1,300 | Over 1,100 |
| Paperback? | Yes, $45 | Yes, $15.95 |
| OA PDF? | Yes | Yes |
| OA XHTML? | Yes | Yes |
| XHTML Version Search Engine? | Yes | Yes |
| Links to Freely Available Works? | Yes (live in XHTML) | Yes (live in XHTML) |
| Creative Commons License? | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License |
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License |
| Publisher | Association of Research Libraries (paperback and OA PDF) and Digital Scholarship (XHTML) | Digital Scholarship |
