The Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.

The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection is a digital goldmine for Poe enthusiasts, students and researchers looking for primary sources, and writers and artists who want to dig deeper into Poe's life and work and see original, hand-w

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is supportive of open data and sharing data to further collaboration and research in the biosciences.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has been recruited by the UK government as part of its move to make all taxpayer-funded academic research from the UK freely available online.

Comprendia Bioscience Consulting Group has developed an interesting way to demonstrate who is passionate about Open Access using Google maps. They have collected 11 months of geographical information on Twitterers utilising #openaccess hashtag, totalling 43,000 tweets by 12,000 twitterers. <a href="http://Who's Passion

Open access to research has long been a topic of concern in the academic field. Beginning with open access to articles, and whole journals, the movement has been followed by opening up access to data, including government data.

Many grant-making bodies expect the peer-reviewed outputs of research they fund to be made freely available, usually within a given time frame. This is their way of ensuring the widest possible dissemination of the research they fund.

Scientific results should be made freely available to the public within six months of first publication, according to Sir Mark Walport, the director of the Wellcome Trust.