Understanding Open Access

Open AccessOpen Access is the provision of free access to peer-reviewed, scholarly and research information to all. It envisages that the rights holder grants worldwide irrevocable right of access to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and make derivative works in any format for any lawful activities with proper attribution to the original author.

Copyright Public Domain

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Printed Booksavailable from commercial publishers

Mostly information produced by Govt. and released online

Books that have expired copyright and made available by commercial publishers

Types of Information: Copyright and Payment

Most web-basedinformation

Information in the public domain

Permission required for reuse

Permission not required for reuse

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Information available on Open Access

Types of Information: Permission and Payment

Universe of Knowledge: Position of Open Access

Types of Open Access: A matrix

The Philosophy of Open Access

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• Freedom (as in beer and speech)

• Flexibility ( choice of licensing mechanisms)

• Fairness ( to authors, funding bodies and society)

Foundations of Open Access

Technology Drivers

Processing power

Data and Storage

Bandwidth

Open Web

Open Source software

National R&D System

Strategic policies, network and Consortia

R&D indicators

Knowledge economy

R&D Investments

Sharing

Societal Expectations

Access

Availability

Excellence

Social return

Communities ofResearchers

Self-organization

Open Peer-reviewCrowdsourcing

Open innovation

Institutional Framework

Research productivity

Impact Factor

Talent management(promotion)

Fiscal constraints

Research collaborations

New models of publications

Challenges

Technology infrastructure requirements

Toll Access Publishing

OA Publication FeesCost of JournalSubscriptions

OA Policies

OA CapacityDevelopment

OA Groups

OA awareness andCopyright issues