Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. “Open Access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.” What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.
There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA to research articles: Publishing in OA journals, and submitting your preprints to OA archives or depositing your postprints in an open- access repository.
Help make Open Access the new norm in scholarship and research. Check out the Directory of Open Access Journals for titles in your field. Find out more about what you as a faculty member or academic administrator can do here.
