Open Access is a terrible idea* (*unless it's done right) | Open Knowledge Belgium

Presentation by Demmy Verbeke at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.

Open Access is a terrible idea* (*unless it's done right)

1. Open Access is a terrible idea* (*unless it is done right) Demmy Verbeke 2. Introduction What is Open Access? Why should we care? How do we do it? 2 3. What is Open Access? Open Access (OA) literature is: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions OA removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions) Academic publications articles in scholarly journals monographs with scholarly publishers 3 Peter Suber, Open Access Overview [https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm] Peter Suber, Open Access (MIT Press, 2012) 4. Why should we care? 1. Ethical reasons 2. Academic reasons 3. Financial reasons...."