Open Access - Canadian Association of Research Libraries

"Open access is a model of scholarly communication that promises to greatly improve the accessibility of results of research. In general terms, scholarly research that is published in open access is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (although it does require that proper attribution of works be given to authors). CARL is committed to open access as a means of broadening access to scholarly materials. The Association has signed two important international declarations on open access...."