A number of institutions and libraries now provide excellent support material to ensure that researchers know about the benefits of open access publishing and archiving. 

The best guides provide a clear summary of what open access is, what benefits it offers (both to researchers and to the wider community), and what individual researchers can do to make open access into a reality. Increasingly, these resources also provide researchers with  important information
about the latest open access policies and requirements from research funders.

Institutions which have created such information resources for their users include:

• 
  Cambridge University
• CERN
• Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique
• Kings College London
• 
  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Massachussets Institute of Technology
• 
  Newcastle University
• University of Zurich
• Universiteit van Amsterdam

In addition, several national organizations have created their own open access information resources, including:

• 
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• National Library of Sweden

For more information about open access advocacy and the role institutional librarians can play, see:

• Scholarly Communication: Science Librarians as Advocates for Change Elizabeth C.
  Turtle and Martin P. Courtois, Issues in Science and
  Technology Librarianship, Summer 2007. 
• OA Librarian (blog)
• Librarians who support open access (facebook group) 
• BioMed Central’s advocacy resources 

Institutional
open access resource guides are a great way to help faculty find out more about open access, and if you are a librarian we encourage you to create such a guide, customized to the needs of your users.

If your institution already has a guide to open access which is not included in the list above, please let us know so we can update this list.