Concepts of Openness and Open Access
abernard102@gmail.com 2016-01-26
Summary:
[From the Introduction] ... This Module, titled “Concepts of Openness and Open Access”, has elaborately discussed different perspectives of openness, particularly which deal with open access movement. There are different modes of open access, namely, gold, green and hybrid, for making peer-reviewed research literature freely available to worldwide audiences. In addition making them freely accessible, certain OA literatures offer various degrees of rights exemptions, such as freedom to share, copy, distribute, modify, remix and reuse. This type of literature is known as Libre Open Access ...