Open Access w Europie: polityka i praktyka = Open Access in Europe: Policy and Practice

摘要

The ever-expanding reach of the internet and new digital publishing technologies give us unique opportunities to improve scholarly communications. Open access aims to take advantage of this new environment by making all scholarly research papers freely available to all interested readers This paper presents a overview of the concept of open access, showing how open access is compatible with peer review and all of the highest standards of scholarly endeavour. Practical examples of successful open access products and services will be given, together with a description of recent developments at the political level relating to open access.