Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. Open access articles are ...

In the past 13 years, open access publishing—in which academic journal content is free for anyone to read online—has moved from a fringe populist movement into the mainstream. Immediate open access ...

Open access means making peer reviewed works freely available in digital form, so that anyone with internet access can use them, without financial, legal or technical barriers. It allows users to ...

Journal publishing is changing at a breakneck pace. Loughborough University Library According to Peter Suber open access is academic literature which is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of ...

Effie Kapsalis is the Senior Digital Program Officer at the Smithsonian and led the strategy and implementation of Smithsonian Open Access Just over a year ago, we launched 2.8 million 2D and 3D ...

In August, the US government announced that it was adopting a policy requiring that all the research it funded is open access. A key element of this plan is that, once the policy takes effect, every ...

I've written a lot over the years about open access (OA) to research. This bibliography of my writings on OA focuses less on news and more on commentary and analysis — pieces that might still be of ...

Welcome to the Open Access web pages. These pages introduce Open Access to research outputs, answer questions about the topic and provides guidance on how to make your research outputs openly ...

Learn how we can help you get the many benefits of open access book publishing. Open access is a publishing model that makes research freely available online for anyone to read, share and reuse.

Open access to research publications falls under the wider umbrella of open research, the practice of making the processes and outputs of research transparent and freely accessible, wherever possible.