File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Open access means making research and knowledge freely available to anyone online, without paywalls or subscription fees. It matters because it removes barriers to learning and allows more people—including students, patients, and researchers in under-resourced areas—to access information that could improve their lives and advance understanding.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- information access
- Part of
- open knowledge
- Image
- DOAJ licenses.png
Show 11 more facts
- facet of
- intellectual property
- P7771
- 1916
- hashtag
- AcessoLivre
- Commons category
- Open access (publishing)
- topic's main category
- Category:Open access (publishing)
- Commons gallery
- Open Access
- partially coincident with
- open science
- does not have part
- subscription
- opposite of
- paywall
- topic has template
- Template:Open access navbox
- P13411
- Jackie Stewart
via Wikidata · CC0
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Open access logo, originally designed by Public Library of Science A PhD Comics introduction to open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright, which regulates post-publication uses of the work.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “open access” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.