The following two documents have been published by  Peter Suber , professor of Philosophy at Earlham College  since 1982.
The guide is a  list ordered alphabetically in which are included most of the terms involved in  the 'Free Online Scholarship Movement' (FOS). The timeline is an updated list of events related to FOS  Movement.

The guide to the free online Scholarship (FOS) Movement  is a guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship movement —the  movement to publish scholarly literature on the internet and make it available to readers free of charge.

The Timeline of the Free Online Scholarship Movement   it is chronology of major events in the FOS movement.


Selected readings:

Erasing the Barrier between Minds: Freeing Information, Integrating Knowledge
Suzie Allard  (allard)

SIX PROPOSALS FOR FREEING THE REFEREED LITERATURE ONLINE:
A COMPARISON
Stevan Harnad  (ariadne)

Budapest Open Access Initiative:
Frequently Asked Questions (BOAIfaq)
Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access
Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access
E-KNOWLEDGE: FREEING THE REFEREED JOURNAL CORPUS ONLINE
Stevan Harnad
SCHOLARLY SKYWRITING AND THE PREPUBLICATION CONTINUUM OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
Stevan Harnad
POST-GUTENBERG GALAXY: THE FOURTH REVOLUTION IN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
Stevan Harnad
RESEARCH ACCESS, IMPACT AND ASSESSMENT
Stevan Harnad
DAEDALUS: Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow
William J Nixon
Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information:
The state of the art. A report compiled for INIST by Jack Frankli
Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing
John Willinsky
How and Why To Free All Refereed Research From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now
Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody

Ppt presentations

Converting an Existing Journal to Open Access (OSI/ALPSP)

Turning Publishing on its Head (Biomed Central)