PLOS. We Paid for the Scientific Research, So Let’s See It. 112th Congress (2011-2012) Research Bought, Then Paid For. Open Access Publishing. Good practices for university open-access policies - Harvard Open Access Project. Open Access Project. Berkman interactive Book Talk: Peter Suber on Open Access The internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost.
We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In this talk, Peter Suber — Director of the Harvard Open Access Project — shares insights from his new concise introduction to open access — what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. This event includes questions and responses from Stuart Shieber (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), Robert Darnton (Harvard University Library), June Casey (Harvard Law School Library), David Weinberger (Berkman Center / Harvard Library Innovation Lab) and more. Open access. Research publications that are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.[1] With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright.[1] The main focus of the open access movement is "peer reviewed research literature.
"[2] Historically, this has centered mainly on print-based academic journals. Whereas non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls such as subscriptions, site licenses or pay-per-view charges, open-access journals are characterised by funding models which do not require the reader to pay to read the journal's contents, relying instead on author fees or on public funding, subsidies and sponsorships. Definitions[edit] Colour naming system[edit] Guerilla Open Access Manifesto. The political consequences of academic paywalls - Opinion. The suicide of Aaron Swartz, the activist committed to making scholarly research accessible to everyone, has renewed debate about the ethics of academic publishing.
Under the current system, academic research is housed in scholarly databases, which charge as much as $50 per article to those without a university affiliation. The only people who profit from this system are academic publishers. Scholars receive no money from the sale of their articles, and are marginalized by a public who cannot afford to read their work.
Ordinary people are denied access to information and prohibited from engaging in scholarly debate. Academic paywalls are often presented as a moral or financial issue. The impact of the paywall is most significant in places where censorship and propaganda reign. Publishing as a means to freedom At the time my article was published, hundreds of Uzbeks had fled across the border to Kyrgyzstan, from where they were relocated as refugees to Western states.