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. Since the revenue of some open access journals are earned from publication fees charged from the authors, there are concerns about the quality of articles published in OA journals.[6][7] Definitions[edit] There are different models of open access publishing and publishers may use one or more of these models. Colour naming system[edit] Gold OA[edit] Green OA[edit] Hybrid OA[edit] Bronze OA[edit]

GreyNet International, Grey Literature Network Service 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.

Thèses.fr : le portail des thèses en France 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. 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 In 2006, I wrote an article proving that the government of Uzbekistan had fabricated a terrorist group in order to justify shooting hundreds of Uzbek civilians gathered at a protest in the city of Andijon. 'Shielded from the people who need it most'

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PLOS Národní úložiště šedé literatury Charakterizace vlastností polovodičových detektorů Čarná Mária; Vlková Kateřina 2014 - Czech Tato bakalářská práce se věnuje radiačnímu poškození v křemíkových polovodičových detektorech, které jsou složeny ze senzoru a vyčítacího čipu. V praktické části byly proměřeny charakteristiky testovacích struktur vyčítacího čipu. Práce zahrnuje základní informace o interakcích částic, křemíkových detektorech a jejich vlastnostech a o principech radiačního poškození polovodičů. This thesis focuses on the radiation damage of semiconductor detectors, which consist of a sensor and a readout chip. Keywords: radiační odolnost; polovodičové detektory; vyčítací čip Available at various departments of the ČVUT. OpenDOAR - Home Page - Directory of Open Access Repositories

Grey Literature - Research guides at University of Ottawa Welcome to this new Guide on Grey Literature! Grey (or gray) Literature (GL) is, according to AFNOR (Association française de normalisation), any typed or printed document, meant to reach a limited audience, outside of the commercial publishing channels and outside of the conventional bibliographic control utilities. It is difficult to estimate how much Grey Literature is produced since legal deposit laws will apply only the volume of conventional literature published commercially. Examples of Grey Literature include: study or research reports, scientific and technical reports, government documents, theses, patent documents etc. Why is there an interest in Grey Literature? Some studies indicate that ignoring literature that is valuable but not commercially available may introduce a methodological bias in conducting research. How can Grey Literature be found? More and more search engines and library resources focus on Grey Literature.

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