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What is Open Access?

Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf

Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf

"Open access is the free, immediate, online availibility of research articles, coupled with the rights to use those articles fully in the digital environment."

 

Definition courtesy of SPARC - the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/about#sthash.j234CeVr.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access#sthash.MSlnZDTK.dpuf

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