Open access

What is open access?

Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access normally associated with publisher copyright agreements via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles, theses and dissertations, and scholarly monographs and chapters in books. Access is immediate, online and freely available to the end user.<br><br>In the open access environment, authors generally publish under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_blank"> Creative Commons Attribution License</a> which allows for free and immediate access to, and unrestricted re-use of, original works of all types. Under this license, authors make their scholarly content legally available for re-use, without permission or fees, and for virtually any purpose. Anyone may copy, distribute, or re-use these articles, with the condition that the author(s) and original source are properly cited. <br><br><h2>Benefits of open access?</h2><ul><li>Accelerated discovery. With open access, researchers can read and build on the findings of others without restriction. </li></ul><div><ul><li>Public interest and enrichment. Much scientific and medical research is funded by public funds. Open access allows taxpayers to benefit from the results of their investment.<br></li><li>Improved education. Open access means that educators and their students have unrestricted access to the latest research findings throughout the world.<br></li><li>Data-mining and text-mining. Open access provides freely available material with which data-mining and text-mining can take place in the semantic web, facilitating the generation of new knowledge from existing findings. <br><br></li></ul></div><h2>Definitions of open access</h2>The three original, formal definitions of open access are to be found in the founding conventions, namely the <a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read" target="_blank"> Budapest</a> (2002), <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm" target="_blank"> Bethesda</a> (2003) and <a href="http://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration" target="_blank"> Berlin</a> (2003) definitions. A fourth major statement is the updated Budapest <a href="http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations" target="_blank"> BOAI10</a> Recommendations<br><p></p>

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