Open access (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series)

摘要

Open access (OA) to scholarly knowledge is currently a global hot topic. The best definition of OA is probably the one formulated in the 2001 Budapest Open Access Archive Initiative: By 'open access' to [scholarly] 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.