Universal Access
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Open Access refers to the removal of price and permissions barriers to peer-reviewed research. Open access can be achieved by:
By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
---Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2001
by Peter Suber
by Lexi Rubow, Rachael Shen, Brianna Schofield, and the Samuelson Clinic
Open Access and the Humanities
by Martin Paul Eve
The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship
by John Willinsky
