Open Access Week is October 24-30, 2011.
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.Peter Suber, Berkman Fellow, Harvard University, A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
Interested in discovering what journals are open access (OA)? Check out the DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals. As of September 15, 2011 they listed 7000 open access journals that make more than 600,000 articles available for everyone to use.
There are many benefits of open access. Not only can people outside of the academy or scholars in developing country with limited funds for subscribing to journals benefit, but all researchers benefit from OA as no single library can subscribe to every scientific journal title.
To find out more about "open access" as an author, publisher or researcher, visit:
- Open Access Blog @ UofS Library by DeDe Dawson, Natural Sciences Librarian
- Open Access Guide - An introductory guide to Open Access (OA) information and resources.