ICAAP. Technological support for the delivery of scholarly content. Develops protocols for the delivery of scholarly content, provides software for journal management and publication, hosts a database of free scholarly journals and resources.

PLoS. Non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world`s scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free access online journals and eprints archives.

OSI. Promotes the development and maintenance of open societies around the world through an array of activities dealing with educational, social, legal, and health care reform.

European partnership for academic publishing aiming to create a community of practice for organisations engaged in electronic academic publishing. Directory of open access projects, initiatives and electronic archives by country.

A philanthropic organization funding projects (grant making, original research, conferences, and collaborative programs) to enhance american public domain, including free digital content and efforts to counteract recent trends in copyright and patent law.

INASP. Its mission is to enhance the flow of information within and between countries, especially those with less developed systems of publication and dissemination.

ELSSS. A non-profit society dedicated to the production of low-cost electronic scholarly journals in the social sciences, particularly in economics. Its journals are not free, but they do pay authors and referees, let authors keep the copyright in their