Open Access: What's that about? - Research to Action

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Summary:

"For those of you who are new to Open Access or would like understand it further Research to Action has put together a list of useful places on the web where you can find out more. Below are some guides, platforms and articles which will provide you the low down and keep you up to date with the latest  on Open Access. Some definitions to start:

Open Access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles. OA is also increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters.

Open Data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other “Open” movements such as open source, open content, and open access...."

Link:

http://www.researchtoaction.org/2013/01/open-access-whats-that-about/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » ab1630's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.terminology oa.intro oa.definitions oa.advocacy oa.scholcomm

Date tagged:

08/14/2018, 08:05

Date published:

08/14/2018, 04:05