Aclarando conceptos - Acceso abierto - Guías de la BUS at Universidad de Sevilla

[Google translate] Open Access: Clarifying Concepts

Open Access (OA) to the scientific literature means its free availability on the Internet, allowing any user to read, download, copy, print, distribute or otherwise legally use it, without any financial, technical or other barriers.

The two ways to publish openly are:

Greenway: deposit in repositories

Golden track: publishing in open access journals

The three most important international declarations that support and define open access are:

Budapest Declaration (Budapest Open Access Initiative, BOAI) 2002

Bethesda Declaration (2003)

Berlin Declaration (2003)