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What is Open Access
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Why Open Access
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Why Support Open Access?
Improve access to scholarly literature and the information it contains.
Currently most scholarly literature is closed-access, and is available only to scholars and scientists whose institutions can afford to pay for it.
Rising acquisition costs have led to a burden on the acquisition budgets of scholarly libraries resulting in a deterioration of the literature supply.
Journal literature has been particularly - although not exclusively - affected.
This development is known as the “serials crisis”
Leverages the power of the Internet
Increases visibility and impact of research and scholarship
Creates new avenues of discovery
Democratizes access - regardless of Institutional size or budget
Most importantly OA advances knowledge and education
Enhances interdisciplinary research
Accelerates the pace of research, discovery and innovation
Enriches the quality of education
Ensure access to more of what students need to know, rather what they (or the institution) can afford
Additional Information
MIT's Open CourseWare
Why Open Access?
SPARC
Why Open Access?
The Right to Research Colaition
The Case for Open Access
PLOS
Why Open Access is Better for Scholarly Societies
from The Occasional Pamphlet by Stuart Shieber,
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