For Faculty
- Academia Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.
For Students
- The Right to Research Coalition The Right to Research Coalition was founded by students in the summer of 2009 to promote an open scholarly publishing system based on the belief that no student should be denied access to the articles they need because their institution cannot afford the often high cost of access. Since its launch, the Coalition has grown to represent nearly 7 million students internationally and counts among its members the largest student organizations in both the United States and Canada. While the Coalition currently has a strong base in North America, it is by no means solely a North American organization and is expanding to incorporate student organizations from around the world.
What is Open Access?
Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. - Peter Suber
- Open access refers to "access" to resources and not a business model, license or type of content.
- It is not free to publish or produce and is not synonymous with universal access.
- It is compatible with peer review, high quality publishing, indexing and other features normally associated with traditional subscription access models.
- Copyright law still applies to open access resources.
Peter Suber, Director of Harvard Office of Scholarly Communication and Director of Harvard Open Access Project